Kenneth Roberts – The Unofficial Site

This has been quite a hectic year as I have begun my Ph. D. in Philosophy at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  As such, I have had no time to catch up on news and blog posts on Kenneth Roberts (I have many Google Reader updates starred for review, but have not looked at them!); rather, I’ve been reading up on Jonathan Edwards’ idealism, philosophy of religion, and now aesthetics.  My summer reading plan fell through, of which I hoped to glance through a Roberts book (ideally).  As, so goes the life of a student and father.

Thankfully, there are others who are looking out for some great finds on Kenneth Roberts.  Russ Grimm over at mymilitaryhistory.blogspot.com notified me of a book review written in December 1937 by Mary Jo Hauser for Western Pennsylvania History.  Here’s the bibliographic information:

Mary Jo Hauser

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Book Review: Northwest Passage. By Kenneth Roberts.

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Source: Western Pennsylvania History, Volume 20, Number 4 (December 1937) , 293a–294

Reviewed Works:

Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage., (Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. 709 P.)

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Full-text:
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You can download a PDF of the book review.  I’ve only had a chance to read the review; however, I noticed that she raised a point that many readers (in 1937) would have issues regarding Roberts’ depiction of Gates’ Indian policy.  She did, though, mention the unpublished original documents Roberts had access to that many others did not.

If memory serves me right, it seems that critics in the past (and present?) charge Roberts of fitting historical facts to fit his plot, or even of doing revisionist history.  I tend to differ (whether it’s because I’m a fan or because I’m naive, I’m not sure); I give Roberts the benefit of the doubt.  I believe Roberts was a historian first and a novelist second, and I believe he presented a picture of Colonial America that he believed was the most accurate based upon his research.

Well, enough of me talking.  Take a gander at the PDF of this book review and enjoy a nice trip back in time.

Filed under: Northwest Passage | Tagged: Mary Jo Hauser, My Military History, Northwest Passage, Russ Grimm, Western Pennsylvania History |