USA: great good fortune in geography. Good harbors on both coasts. Access to both oceans. Mississippi River system--navigable, with navigable tributaries and no waterfalls (Africa is opposite). Great farmland. Great climate--cold enough to kill insects and thus reduce diseases like malaria. The USA is so blessed that Tim Marshall believes that reports of its decline are greatly exaggerated, like Twain's death.
Solid opening 30 minutes (we're treating this like a mini-series). O's involvement with left-wing causes . . . rift with Einstein (O thinks of him as over-the-hill and Einstein knows it.) First splitting of atom. Lawrence Lab in Berkeley--Lawrence practical applied physics . . . not O's strength. Main actor is from Peaky Blinders.
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