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Title: Not a novel, a screenplay and not a very good one at that
Review: The problems with To Make Men Free are huge. This is a novel that tells, not shows. A scene takes place at the Pry House, McClellan's headquarters and no adjectives are used to describe the house.The characters are so interchangeable that the color of the uniform is the only difference between them. Paper dolls have more personality than any character in this book.I've read screenplays and this reads like a screenplay that didn't sell. It appeares as if it was re-formatted into paragraphs and called a novel.I've read novels by Michael Shaara, Shelby Foote, Stephen Crane, Jeff Shaara, Howard Bahr, McKinley Kantor, Thomas Kennally, Owen Parry and the list goes on. To Make Men Free is not even in the stadium with the works of these authors.
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