White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America
This provocative biography profiles William Johnson, an Irish immigrant to Britain's North American empire who became instrumental in forging America's alliance with the Iroquois.
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2005, Farrar Straus Giroux
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2005
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0374281289
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9780374281281
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0374281289
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9780374281281
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2005
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Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
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2006,
Faber & Faber, London
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Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, NY
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Faber & Faber, London
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At least one major historian regards this life of one of the major figures in pre-Revolutionary America as mainly fiction because of the author's heavy reliance on Irish folkways. But at times it can be interesting and suggestive.
Sir William Johnson was a complex man who lived successfully among the Iroquois, the British, and the colonists. Previous biographies like Milton Hamilton's are good but a modern one is lacking. This isn't it unless you too are heavily influenced by Irish legends.
It's too intense for a summer read or a beach book and it fails to satisfy the historian; sources are dated especially secondary ones for background.
I'd wait for the forthcoming major study on Johnson.
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