Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero: The Formative Years

by Wilbur R. Jacobs

Book Overview

A historian who lived the kind of history he wrote, Francis Parkman is a major-and controversial-figure in American historiography. His narrative style, while popular with readers wanting a "good story," has raised many questions with professional historians. Was Parkman writing history or historical fiction? Did he color historical figures with his own heroic self-image? Was his objectivity compromised by his "unbending, conservative, Brahmin"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292729588
• ISBN13: 9780292729582
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"