PositiveAir MailBurrough is the talented author...who knows how to write colorfully about colorful personalities ... Burrough’s survey of miscreants neatly sizes up the Wild West myths and archetypes as products of a bellicose culture born in the American South before the Civil War.
PositiveAir MailGenoways’s achievement lies in resurrecting Cuervo’s story from the private archives of the Cuervo family ... Although Genoways’s detailed research is impressive, he sometimes falls overly in love with the facts he unearthed, leaving his narrative weighed down by detail. A forceful editor would have served him well ... Nevertheless, Tequila Wars offers casual readers an inviting entry point into the Mexican Revolution ... Genoways vividly depicts this upheaval on the local level.
