Pretty disappointing account of Alexander the Great -- I was really interested in reading this book -- it's part of the Eminent Lives series, which also put out a book about Ulysses S Grant that I liked a fair bit. I'm not sure if it's because it's about an era of history that's not super-well documented or just because the author didn't do a good job, but I found this book disjointed and not very well-written. Alexander, of course, was an interesting guy. Just not interesting enough to carry a mediocre biography.