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Title: The Unredeemed Captive : A Family Story from Early America by John Putnam Demos ISBN: 0-679-75961-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (20 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: What could be an interesting tale marred by an awful prose
Comment: John Demos tackles an interesting topic in writing the Unredeemed Captive, a story about a young Puritan girl who is captured and subsquently adopted by Mohawk Indians and her family's attempts to redeem her. Such a tale would strike one as intruiging and rife with historical detail. Indeed, Demos' research is superb. Demos spares no quarter in bombarding the reader with references to historical primary sources, which range from Puritan sermons to fur trader diaries yet in Demos' obsessive need to illustrate his narrative with these documents he loses the reader with his unredeemable writing style. An unbearably excessive use of the parentheses and colon are among Demos' cardinal sins in this book often throwing the reader off on tangents and unnecessary observations which end up obscuring the tale rather than magnifying it. This chaotic style makes the book an incredible drag for the detatched reader. In addition, Demos takes analysis of sources to the next level, often inserting his own narrative on the thoughts of various characters in the book without any backup evidence for these assumptions.
There is no doubt Demos has done his homework on this book, unfortuneatly that's not enough to keep the reader interested. This book is valuable as a historical analysis of a segment often unlooked at in American history yet its historical ferver loses the reader along the way.
Rating: 4
Summary: Really Good
Comment: Really helpful in understanding why so many colonists chose to stay with their captors, or adoptive Indian families.
Loved it.
Rating: 4
Summary: only for the patient reader does it deliver!
Comment: except for an acceptable opening, the book dwindles into vaguely historical rhetoric. this part can be zipped past for most readers, please do! finally, demos hits his stride and provides real insight to the living conditions in new france and new england for native people and the euro-americans.
his writing style is not fixed and appears moving toward unknown borders. nonetheless, he earned my respect as author and historian when his innovative presentation includes closure to the williams family. most significantly, demos proves humanity is a common bond to the 'white' new england williams and the 'indian' kahnawake descendants. too bad most readers will find only sleep in the early pages, though.
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Title: The Kingdom of Matthias/a Story of Sex and Salvation in 19Th-Century America: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19Th-Centtury America by Paul E. Johnson, Sean Wilentz ISBN: 0195098358 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Midwife's Tale : The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ISBN: 0679733760 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin ISBN: 0684804484 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer ISBN: 0195098315 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Awakening by Kate Chopin ISBN: 0380002450 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 10 February, 1982 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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