01-14-2017, 10:31 PM | #3 |
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Finished Northwest Passage about a week before Christmas. As I said, enjoyed both of these books by Roberts.
Both present a very positive account of someone who had become vilified in American society. In Rabble in Arms, it was Benedict Arnold. In Northwest Passage, it was Robert Rogers. I understand that may be a common approach by Ken Roberts. In fact, he's written another one, which my library doesn't have and I now want to read - about an English Loyalist at the time of the American Revolution - Oliver Wiswell. In this case, I don't know if there's a historical basis for the character, as there is for both Arnold and Rogers, or if he is fictitious, but representative of Loyalists at the time. We don't see this in our country today - or even any memory of it - but I've gathered that in our early years, there was some "national guilt" to be worked through about how Loyalists were treated before and during the American Revolution. It's pretty well spelled out in the first of the Leatherstocking Tales (written, I think, in 1820's or so) by James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers. In fact - that's a really good read. Especially shocking to anyone who has read the most famous, Last of the Mohicans - which he wrote second, but which is set about 35 years earlier.
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