Benton Rain Patterson
Auteur van The Great American Steamboat Race: The Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the Climax of an Era
Over de Auteur
Benton Rain Patterson has written for the New York Times and the Saturday Evening Post. He is the author of Harold and William and is professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he lives.
Werken van Benton Rain Patterson
The Great American Steamboat Race: The Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the Climax of an Era (2009) 86 exemplaren
With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown (2007) 38 exemplaren
The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans (2005) 22 exemplaren
Lincoln's Political Generals: The Battlefield Performance of Seven Controversial Appointees (2014) 6 exemplaren
The Mississippi River Campaign, 1861-1863 : The Struggle for Control of the Western Waters (2010) 4 exemplaren
Ending the Civil War: The Bloody Year from Grant's Promotion to Lincoln's Assassination (2012) 4 exemplaren
A Reporter's Interview with Jesus 2 exemplaren
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These parallel studies are often difficult to complete successfully and author Benton Patterson has joined a long line of others who have failed. I bought this book because I'm a sucker for anything on the War of 1812, but this book rambles so far afield I'm unclear whether I'll get much of anything out of it.
Patterson tries to do too much in order to provide some context to the battle. We find ourselves reviewing all of Napoleon's service in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as every other campaign in the War of 1812 whether it involved Jackson and/or Pakenham or not. There's just not sufficient focus on the principal actors to devote a book to them. By the time we get to New Orleans, we've very little about Pakenham and only a sketch of Jackson with about 110 pages left to go. We haven't learned enough about the two generals to explain their actions in this important battle.
I recommend Robert Remini's fine, brief book on this important battle. Remini, as Jackson's biographer, offers the insite that Patterson does not.… (meer)