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Title: Lincoln's War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief by Geoffrey Perret ISBN: 0-375-50738-8 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 20 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 1 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't be fooled again ...
Comment: Reading Geoffrey Perret is like going out with what you think is Jessica Simpson. At first, it all looks good, even immaculate: the snazzy dresser, bright teeth, urbane wit ... and then you begin to delve into what's there ... the empty head, the superficial smile, the sense that you are being conned by yet another effort to separate you from your hard-earned money for some more Civil War fluff. And in this case, you finally discover that it's not Jessica Simpson across the table after all, but some dyed blonde wannabe who's invested a lot of money with her surgeon, dentist, and makeup staff ... as you find out when the foundation peels off and the liposuction gives way. He's a combination of Michael Caine and Hugh Grant, minus any real sparkle, charisma, or brains, and not quite as visually appealing. But if you like that sort of thing, then Perret's the man for you.
Perret's ignorance about Ulysses S. Grant is known to all who are familiar with his book, in which he becomes the author who couldn't write straight (there's a double meaning to this phrase, revealed in his musings about the homoerotic appeal of John Rawlins, whom he likens to James Dean and River Phoenix). Perret's an effete fop who has personal issues to work out (he once wrote about MacArthur's "member" as a little crooked thing). Now he returns to the scene of his previous crime, hopeful that his smooth prose and turn of phrase will entrap those who don't know any better (although his prose fails to sustain that promise). There's nothing, nothing new here, the reviews by non-experts for LJ and PW notwithstanding. My goodness, the poor chap even botched up his description of the Kennedy assassination, although at least it was corrected in the paperback (he had the Kennedys sitting FACING the Connallys -- hello, have we seen the Zapruder film?).
There are better books on Lincoln, and even T. Harry Williams did a better job in the badly dated LINCOLN AND HIS GENERALS. People who are impressed by pseudo-urbane flash (usually those with self-esteem issues) may find Perret an intriguing character, but anyone who suffered through his C-SPAN Booknotes interview knows his work is plagued by some serious problems that can not be smiled away. I imagine he thinks he's Edmund Morris or a good-looking Henry Adams, except that he's already at work on his next fatuous opus. As for this book, you'll come away aware that you've read this all before--except, of course, where it's hilariously wrongheaded--and that you've been snookered. BUYER BEWARE!
Rating: 1
Summary: An absolutely terrible book
Comment: Perret's books are frequently terrible and always atrocious. His book on Ulysses S. Grant was so bad I burned my copy. I also threw into the flames his books on MacArthur, Ike and Kennedy. This book on Lincoln is similarly bad and as always, he makes mistakes on just about every page. Never trust anything this man says or writes. His knowledge of Lincoln is extremely tiny and his writing style is something out of Jane Eyre, only worse. I'd rather eat glass than read anything Perret writes.
Rating: 1
Summary: Burned Once ....
Comment: Perret's knowledge of the Civil War is woefully lacking, as anyone who has read his biography of Ulysses S. Grant knows. I expect scholars will pick this volume apart as well.
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Title: Lincoln at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President by Harold Holzer ISBN: 0743224663 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 05 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ISBN: 1594200092 Publisher: The Penguin Press Pub. Date: 26 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation : The End of Slavery in America by Allen C. Guelzo ISBN: 0743221826 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 12 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: We Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald ISBN: 0743254686 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: George Washington's War: The Forging of a Man, a Presidency and a Nation by Bruce Chadwick ISBN: 1402202229 Publisher: Sourcebooks Trade Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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