New Natl Geog and Sacagawea/Sacajawea

[paulzjoh]

I must agree, "Undaunted Courage," was, at best, a very poor book, at worse,
a hack job cashing in on the author's name.
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From: "Grant Barrett" <gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: New Natl Geog and Sacagawea/Sacajawea


> Le Wednesday, 22 Jan 2003, à 09:09 America/New_York, Michael Cassidy a
> écrit :
>
> >  Grant Barrett  writes:
> >
> > Stephen Ambrose, in his fairly pedestrian book about Merriweather
> > Lewis, "Undaunted Courage," quotes from the journal of Charles
> > MacKenzie, a British trader who visited with the Corps of Discovery at
> > Fort Mandan.
> >
> > I've been online for about 18 years and one thing I've learned:
> > its amazing how email sucks the snottiness out of people.
> > I guess its alright Ambose is dead and created a greater body of work
> > than
> > Grant.
>
> Dead or not, I believe Ambrose was the worst sort of writer: a pastiche
> artist, an incautious self-editor, repetitive, and, yes, pedestrian:
> lacking in imagination to such a degree that one can read a book such
> as "Undaunated Courage" and feel cheated out of the best parts of the
> story. A large body of such work is nothing to me.
>
> --
> Grant Barrett
> Editor, World New York
> http://www.worldnewyork.org/
> gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
>