Margaret Louise Harris
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In the Shade of Oaks: A Story of American Heritage
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2009
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A more honest title for this doorstopper would have been, Don Akenson’s Salacious History of Humankind. By the end his perspective is bordering on pornography. Am glad I never had to sit through one of this guy’s classes. Essentially, he takes reporte ...more |
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The story is not beautiful, but the writing of it most assuredly is. Many of us have loved someone who was self-destructive, but this man loves a couple of towns full of self-destructive people. In this book he made me love them too. Although I confe ...more | |
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It began as a rather irreverently seeming parody of the history and mythology of Ireland. But I kept turning the pages to learn whatever his perspective might be on the selected Irish characters of prominence over the last several thousand years, and ...more | |
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Bleak and dark. If you have the slightest inclination to feel depression, do not read this book. Every character in the story is portrayed as lonely, and most of them are alcoholics. In place of general moral principle for making life decisions, they ...more | |
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This book is a revisionist history of Ireland, published in 1989 as a set of essays by six academic professors. I found it condescending throughout. I read it to the end, hoping to find at least one of the contributors who didn't simplistically descr ...more | |
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This story has a power I never expected. Am still considering whether it is more timely now or would have been so at the time it was finished in the late 1950s. It would, without doubt, have created a firestorm of public controversy at the earlier ti ...more | |
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Between 1940 and 1957 Inglis Fletcher wrote nine novels set in early North Carolina history. "The Wind in the Forest" is the ninth and is just as compelling as each of the others. The romantic plot here revolves around the 1771 Battle of Alamance, a ...more | |
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I likely expected too much from this little book. It is mostly a recap of more general reports of the Great Irish Famine, with some specific examples of the official actions taken in County Wexford. A few individual families and/or farms are named, b ...more | |
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This book should be more renowned than it is. Since 1980 until now it rested unread on my shelf as a Time-Life Book-of-the-Month-Club issue. Had I read it then, I believe I would still profit by re-reading it now. The author was a most extraordinary ...more | |
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This book should be more renowned than it is. Since 1980 until now it rested unread on my shelf as a Time-Life Book-of-the-Month-Club issue. Had I read it then, I believe I would still profit by re-reading it now. The author was a most extraordinary ...more | |
“The ancestral history from both of my parents carried a raw power. If my initial motivation to look for them tended to self-indulgent curiosity, it quick evolved into a different sense of yearning.”
― In the Shade of Oaks: A Story of American Heritage
― In the Shade of Oaks: A Story of American Heritage
“Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ”
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