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Title: 1950's style history
Review: If you prefer your history written in the style of the 1950's, then this book is for you. The "Indians" are variably described as 'hostiles' and "banging on their war drums while they screamed their defiance", their battles described as "massacres" the US army response as "vengeance", "the punishing hand of Andrew Jackson".One has the impression that the British and the Spanish are dastardly characters who deserved to lose the battle of New Orleans. There is some reasonably nice history of the city and the battle, but I must confess I hadn't the stomach to finish this book.What I read of the book is too black and white, heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys for my taste. I would have returned it if I hadn't accidentally torn the dust cover just after receiving it.
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