Benton Rain Patterson
Autore di The Great American Steamboat Race: The Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the Climax of an Era
Sull'Autore
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.
Opere di Benton Rain Patterson
The Great American Steamboat Race: The Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the Climax of an Era (2009) 86 copie
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 copie
The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans (2005) 22 copie
Lincoln's Political Generals: The Battlefield Performance of Seven Controversial Appointees (2014) 6 copie
The Mississippi River Campaign, 1861-1863 : The Struggle for Control of the Western Waters (2010) 4 copie
Opere correlate
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1962 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Patterson, Benton Rain
- Data di nascita
- 1929-12-02
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Organizzazioni
- University of Florida
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 12
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 278
- Popolarità
- #83,543
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 21
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.… (altro)