Unfortunately, after a few striking chapters portraying Adams's disdain for his Presidential forebears (he wished he could be "less Adamsy"), the book becomes a volume-by-volume gloss that is no great advertisement either for the history's readability or for the distinctiveness of its argument about the emergence of an American national identity.
Katz devotes one striking chapter to a fundamental change in violin technique that took place in the early twentieth century.
One striking chapter sees you clambering around a giant's battleground, strewn with enormous, armor-plated torsos that wouldn't look out of place on the cover of God of War.
One striking chapter sees you clambering around a giant's battleground, strewn with enormous, armour-plated torsos that wouldn't look out of place on the cover of God of War.
In what might be the most striking chapter so far, called "An answered prayer," a video pans over the curvature of the Earth while playing audio of the announcer Verne Lundquist calling the famous final sequence of a game between the Universities of Alabama and Auburn in 2013.
The book's most striking chapter is "The Boy's Friend, 1980," which centers on Jeong-dae, a classmate of Dong-ho's who was fatally shot when the two boys went out to watch the crowds.
So much success so soon made him enemies; and perhaps the most striking chapter in Greenblatt's book is that on Shakespeare's rancorous relations with the "University wits," and particularly with Robert Greene.
Perhaps the most striking chapter in the book describes how technology companies in America campaigned to foster a view that state schools were failing – in particular by funding a series of films about crummy schools and heroic individual teachers battling the system – before profiting from selling IT "solutions" to the new schools springing up to replace failed ones.
In two striking chapters of his Nichomachean Ethics he distinguishes genuine friendship from two simulacra, one in which the basis of the relationship is pleasure, the other in which it is mutual usefulness.
One of the book's most striking chapters focuses on 2014's genuinely gorgeous puzzler Tengami and speaks to its studio's (Nyamyam) co-founder Jennifer Schneidereit.
