Tom Chaffin
Auteur van Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah
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Tom Chaffin is the author of, among other books, Giant's Causeway: Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary; Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah; and Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire. His toon meer writing has also appeared in The New York Times, the Oxford American, Time, Harper's, and other publications. He lives in Atlanta. toon minder
Werken van Tom Chaffin
Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah (2006) 223 exemplaren
Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations (2019) 60 exemplaren
Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, The Beagle, and The Voyage that Changed the World (2022) 24 exemplaren
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Sure, Jefferson and Lafayette worked together some in Paris and communicated over decades. But I didn't get the sense that they were as close as, say, Jefferson and John Adams (not withstanding their falling out for some years). They hardly saw each other on American soil and for the years they were both in France, there didn't seem to be a great deal of time spent with each other. No doubt they had great respect and admiration for each other, but I never got the feeling like they were "brothers."
I far more enjoyed the first third of the book—the part that takes place in America during the Revolution. Once Jefferson arrives in France, things bogged down quite a bit for me. This is more a reflection of my ignorance of French pronunciation and geography than that of the author's skill and research.
I did like the book's frequent breaks and relatively small chapters. As unacademic as that is, the writing was not. The style was not much to my liking. And don't get me started on the author's overuse of parenthetical phrases.
That said, "Revolutionary Brothers" does offer some excellent insight into the minds of both protagonists, much of which I'd not encountered before.… (meer)