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Title: Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin ISBN: 0-525-45944-8 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Outdated Sources and Colonial Attitude
Comment: Marrin's book makes significant use of outdated sources, many before 1970, as well as romantic photographs and illustrations. Although the book is impressive for a young adult audience, with its bibliography and textbook feel, the lack of current scholarship on Sitting Bull is apparent as one reads through the chapters.
I would not recommend this book to any age group. The perpetuation of colonial attitudes is prevalent in Marrin's book. As well, the lack of Native voice is apparent. Marrin often negates Lakota spirituality and projects the romantic, utopic Indian with phrases like "Oh no! He was none other than the buffalo god!" The heavy (and skewed) emphasis on war and killing in the middle chapters begs for historical qualification- and makes for barbarism for children who have little frame of reference.
This book suceeds in keeping American Indian people in the colonial time warp and does little to portray Sitting Bull in an humanistic fashion.
Rating: 4
Summary: Almost fabulous
Comment: A complete, well-researched, well-rounded but dry portrayal of this historic figure and time period. Marrin succeeds in conveying that a Lakota's way of viewing the world and his place in it differed from the white man's, and thus our own. Sitting Bull is portrayed as a great leader and warrior from the viewpoint of his people, but we are led to see how his actions were understood and portrayed differently by contemporary journalists and historians. Not as moving as Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, but evokes the same sense of remorseful wonder at the needless pain, suffering and loss of life imposed on Native Americans by the United States' "Manifest Destiny" policy and those who carried it out.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Heartwarming Biography
Comment: I thought that this book was a very good book. You could read this book and never put it down. This was a great book for an assignment or just for fun. They tell a lot about his biggest battle " The Little-Bighorn". If you like really good books you should read this.
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Title: Commander in Chief: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War by Albert Marrin ISBN: 0525470697 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: George Washington & the Founding of a Nation by Albert Marrin ISBN: 0525470689 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars by Albert Marrin ISBN: 0670834807 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Unconditional Surrender : U. S. Grant and the Civil War by Albert Marrin ISBN: 0689318375 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World : A Biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Polly Schoyer Brooks, Polly Brooks ISBN: 0395981395 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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