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Gouverneur Morris Theodore Roosevelt Mifline and Company Houghton 9781140578628 Books
The book could have just as well been categorized as an extended essay - in the best sense of that description - a piece of writing from an author's personal point of view. T.R. is, as usual, adamant in his opinion, often presented bombastically as fact rather than perspective. No doubt he is right more often than wrong, but unfortunately the reader is never sure where biography ends and essay begins. There are no citations, no included correspondence, no referenced schools of thought... only T.R.'s indomitable opinion, which frequently lapses into a sermonizing form as it does, though more forgivably, in his own autobiography Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography.We do learn much of Gouverneur Morris and his remarkable life, though the author ignores an opportunity for a more detailed analysis of Morris' enormous contribution to the Constitutional Convention which would have required far more of the scholarly arts than found in an essay! Morris' life in Paris during "The Terror" of the French Revolution is well presented as harrowing and heroic. And despite T.R.'s evident love of his subject, the author breaks free of his infatuation long enough to excoriate Morris for his contemptible behavior as leader of a secessionist movement during the War of 1812. (See James M. Banner's book, To the Hartford Convention: the Federalists and the origins of party politics in Massachusetts, 1789-1815 for more on that topic). It is an easy read, "between the lines" to see Morris as a haughty aristocrat, contemptuous of the intellectual capabilities of the "common man", even though T.R. struggles (in vain) to caution his readers that this was NOT the case.
Much of T.R.'s opinion and perspective can come off in the 21st century as bluster, or oddly dated - (20th century macho has morphed into 21st century buffoonery). A brief example: (pg. 261) "The king who could suffer with firmness, and who could act either not at all, or else with the worst possible effect, had the head and heart that might of suited the monkish idea of a female saint...". Why pass along the "monkish" gender disdain? And, with remarkably unreasoned bluster, T.R. writes of our Revolutionary War experience (pg. 49) "We did not owe our main disasters to the might of our foes, nor our final triumph to the help of our friends." Thus at Yorktown, eight-thousand French soldiers under Rochambeau, a French naval fleet under de Grasse of AT LEAST 28 'Ships of the Line', totaling 2,078 guns and 18,138 crew members, a fleet carrying a half-million in Spanish silver to pay unpaid American troops, all blithely ignored and dismissed by our essayist!
Nonetheless- the book is a worthwhile read and recommended, but as much for its unintended "autobiography" of the writer as for its essay of his subject. Still-- exuberance and self-assurance do make for a better told story than the dry simplicity of a recitation of facts gathered through laborious research. But, the right combination of those two styles is what can make history come alive and unfortunately this book misses that mix; the historian's expected rigor and depth does not show. See, professor William Howard Adams' book, Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life for a much better biography of Morris. This book merits only three stars as as a biography despite the eminence of the author, perhaps more stars as essay?
kindle edition-----
Text is generally well done; there are no typos, or awkward page breaks, or line feeds, etc that can be an annoying artifact of the "remastering" to digital process. Oddly, however, the book did NOT recognize the dictionary, so there is no look-up. The dictionaries are particularly missed as a translator for T.R.'s flamboyantly "dropped" French phrases. Page numbers are shown with selection of the menu and toolbar display (tap top of kindle-page). e-Book publication quality, ★★★☆☆
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Gouverneur Morris Theodore Roosevelt Mifline and Company Houghton 9781140578628 Books Reviews
Gouverneur Morris This is a great essay by Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote in a breezy, fast-moving style. I have given it to several people, who have all enjoyed it.
A word of warning, though I recently bought the Pavilion Press edition, which I can't recommend. The binding is dreadful, you can't open the book and the binding broke right away. A basically unreadable edition -- not sure why they bother to publish it.
The book could have just as well been categorized as an extended essay - in the best sense of that description - a piece of writing from an author's personal point of view. T.R. is, as usual, adamant in his opinion, often presented bombastically as fact rather than perspective. No doubt he is right more often than wrong, but unfortunately the reader is never sure where biography ends and essay begins. There are no citations, no included correspondence, no referenced schools of thought... only T.R.'s indomitable opinion, which frequently lapses into a sermonizing form as it does, though more forgivably, in his own autobiography Theodore Roosevelt An Autobiography.
We do learn much of Gouverneur Morris and his remarkable life, though the author ignores an opportunity for a more detailed analysis of Morris' enormous contribution to the Constitutional Convention which would have required far more of the scholarly arts than found in an essay! Morris' life in Paris during "The Terror" of the French Revolution is well presented as harrowing and heroic. And despite T.R.'s evident love of his subject, the author breaks free of his infatuation long enough to excoriate Morris for his contemptible behavior as leader of a secessionist movement during the War of 1812. (See James M. Banner's book, To the Hartford Convention the Federalists and the origins of party politics in Massachusetts, 1789-1815 for more on that topic). It is an easy read, "between the lines" to see Morris as a haughty aristocrat, contemptuous of the intellectual capabilities of the "common man", even though T.R. struggles (in vain) to caution his readers that this was NOT the case.
Much of T.R.'s opinion and perspective can come off in the 21st century as bluster, or oddly dated - (20th century macho has morphed into 21st century buffoonery). A brief example (pg. 261) "The king who could suffer with firmness, and who could act either not at all, or else with the worst possible effect, had the head and heart that might of suited the monkish idea of a female saint...". Why pass along the "monkish" gender disdain? And, with remarkably unreasoned bluster, T.R. writes of our Revolutionary War experience (pg. 49) "We did not owe our main disasters to the might of our foes, nor our final triumph to the help of our friends." Thus at Yorktown, eight-thousand French soldiers under Rochambeau, a French naval fleet under de Grasse of AT LEAST 28 'Ships of the Line', totaling 2,078 guns and 18,138 crew members, a fleet carrying a half-million in Spanish silver to pay unpaid American troops, all blithely ignored and dismissed by our essayist!
Nonetheless- the book is a worthwhile read and recommended, but as much for its unintended "autobiography" of the writer as for its essay of his subject. Still-- exuberance and self-assurance do make for a better told story than the dry simplicity of a recitation of facts gathered through laborious research. But, the right combination of those two styles is what can make history come alive and unfortunately this book misses that mix; the historian's expected rigor and depth does not show. See, professor William Howard Adams' book, Gouverneur Morris An Independent Life for a much better biography of Morris. This book merits only three stars as as a biography despite the eminence of the author, perhaps more stars as essay?
kindle edition-----
Text is generally well done; there are no typos, or awkward page breaks, or line feeds, etc that can be an annoying artifact of the "remastering" to digital process. Oddly, however, the book did NOT recognize the dictionary, so there is no look-up. The dictionaries are particularly missed as a translator for T.R.'s flamboyantly "dropped" French phrases. Page numbers are shown with selection of the menu and toolbar display (tap top of kindle-page). e-Book publication quality, ★★★☆☆
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