tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post7573305904194972047..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Adam Foutz and the General’s “French Cook”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-8920715720720788672010-08-16T14:17:33.018-05:002010-08-16T14:17:33.018-05:00Thanks, J.L. Yeah, I think I'll not read those...Thanks, J.L. Yeah, I think I'll not read those then. <br />That first chapter had a couple of drawbacks as well that I noticed.<br />The part where Adams is talking to Abigail, and he says something to the effect of "a pregnant woman fighting? Now that's absurd."<br />I know for a fact that people back then never said the word "pregnant," and in the Adamses exact instance, John had said that Mrs. Adams was under the "circumstance."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-64083363243705407662010-08-16T13:07:49.327-05:002010-08-16T13:07:49.327-05:00Quite sad to comment,but Jeff Shaara's writing...Quite sad to comment,but Jeff Shaara's writings are a very far cry from his father's excellent works.The Killer Angels is suberb.Pvt.Willynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-33790752186207983572010-08-16T10:48:55.922-05:002010-08-16T10:48:55.922-05:00I stopped reading Rise to Rebellion after checking...I stopped reading <i>Rise to Rebellion</i> after checking out its scenes of the Boston Massacre. There were so many inaccuracies and so much presentism in describing a well-documented event that I had no confidence in the author’s research elsewhere. <br /><br />The little detail about Foutz is relatively minor and understandable. Top experts on Washington had established the picture of Foutz as working in Cambridge and being sent into the ranks. I needed the Library of Congress’s online Washington papers and Google Books to realize that picture was mistaken.<br /><br />In fictionalizing Foutz’s story, Shaara went beyond the little that historians wrote about the man—as a novelist can do. But the way he did it was also the way he fictionalized the Boston Massacre, treating the American elite and establishment uncritically while sneering at others, such as working-class Americans and foreigners.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-82218354937144897842010-08-16T09:51:24.217-05:002010-08-16T09:51:24.217-05:00Anything else I should know about Shaara's nov...Anything else I should know about Shaara's novel that's inaccurate? <br />I began to read it a couple months back, but didn't make it past the chapter where Franklin was in Ireland, and he was saddened over the plight of the Irish farmers. The book seemed to start off very strong, but then I got lost, and finally brought it back to the library.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com