Book Review
The book that I chose to read was called The Governor And The Rebel, by Wilcomb E. Washburn. Wilcomb was a very qualified person. He passed away on February 1, 1997. He got his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University. After Harvard, he taught history for three years at the College of William and Mary. He then joined the Smithsonian Institution as Curator in the division of political history. He had a career of research, publication, lecturing, and teaching on diverse topics. He was editor of nine works, from the Indian and the White Man in 1964. He is the author of five other books besides the one I read. One was called Red Man’s Land/White Man’s Law. He wrote about 200 journal articles, book chapters, newspaper pieces and book reviews all having to do with United States History. While he wrote the book he did most of his research in England, so he could get both viewpoints of the situation with Bacon’s Rebellion, which is what The Governor And The Rebel is about. The type of the book is a monograph. The Thesis of this book is; throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the rebellion of Nathani . . .
Bacon and his main men were accused of high treason, all their land and possessions were forfeited to the king. My opinion of The Governor and The Rebel, was for a non-fiction book on a subject. The king make A Royal commission of investigation. We get to pick a specific event that we find interesting and learn about it in detail. It didn’t take me long at all to read the book after I got into it. For the most part of the book the readability was good. After a little Bit Berkely became governor again. Like Washburn states on page 16 “ Was it an attempt to over throw a tyrannical government, or was it just a disagreement on how to protect the colony; in the following chapters the evidence will be reviewed and a conclusion drawn. Washburn talks about how the white settlers in Virginia were migrating into Indian lands, and how hostility came between the Indians and the settlers. Chapter 4 talks about how Bacon gets laws passed Called Bacon’s Laws. The next chapter is explains about how Bacon defied Governor Berkeley, by attacking the Indians. The people of Britain pretty much wrote the opposite.
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