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Craig Offman, in his article “A Tempest around Isaac’s Storm”, has a few words to say about the accuracy and depiction of Isaac Cline and the Galveston storm of 1900 in the book Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson. Offman describes how Larson while writing the book must have been interpreting the sources he used to better his argument and make his book a little more dramatic. One example is the dramatic falling apart of the Cline brothers. Larson has read both memoirs of the brothers and concluded that they had not talked at all after the storm in Galveston. Offman thinks otherwise as he feels that the memoirs don’t provide concrete evidence that this falling out occurred. Offman also says that he thinks Larson selectively pulled his sources or had missed a period article shortly after the storm that had the brothers talking fondly of each other. With a few facts being questioned on solid terms it makes you wonder if other facts that he stated like the quote REBEKAHBENNINGER1 sited, “Isaac had later felt a sense of guilt for not having thought the storm would be so severe,” Who knows how Isaac really felt and if he how he came to that conclusion.  The Offman article is written to try and poke holes in the book Isaac’s Storm and has so evidence that can back up why Larson may have either interpreted the sources wrong or just bent the truth to make his story more exciting.  I buy into what Offman is having to say because there is evidence that can make Isaac’s Storm seem skeptical on top of how the book was already written. Overall the article has some good insights into how a book can be factually skewed and still get good reviews and be a great seller.