By Ryan Pozzi
The Mess That Made Them strips away the whitewashed narratives of some of history’s most familiar names, delivering the honest, messy truth behind figures we think we know.
Debut author Ryan Pozzi weaves in his own struggles as a modern-day creative alongside these historical portraits, creating an intriguing juxtaposition between past and present and asking interesting questions about the future.
For anyone like me who is late to learning our true history versus the sanitized version that has often been presented to us, this book delivers both clarity and correction. Bonus: it’ll probably help you answer a Jeopardy question or two.
Four-and-a-half stars