Today we’re taking a look at Pulitzer-Prize winning historian David McCullough’s The Pioneers, which tells the story of five men who settled the Northwest Territory. With that in mind, welcome to a new series we’re calling Point/Counterpoint, in which we pit two wildly different reviews of the same book-one positive, one negative-against one another and let you decide which makes the stronger case. It’s just more fun, dammit, and, ahem, furthermore, it tends to generate a more wide-ranging and interesting discussion around the title in question. Sure, any author about to release their baby into the wild will be hoping for unqualified praise from all corners, but what the lovers of literary criticism and book twitter aficionados amongst us are generally more interested in is seeing a title (intelligently) savaged and exalted in equal measure. There are few things the literary community relishes more than the appearance of a polarizing high-profile book.
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