7/7/2023 0 Comments Ian toll six frigates![]() ![]() Hatred of America seems a prevailing sentiment in this country. ![]() ![]() Toll’s book is very nautically detailed, but it also includes thorough treatments of the Founders, the political parties, the leading issues facing the young republic such as Barbary piracy and French and British impressment of sailors (which seems to approach kidnapping and slavery in its straightforwardness), as well as quaint customs like dueling.Īmong Six Frigates’ panorama of the early nineteenth century appears this account of British anti-Americanism, which I read as evidence of the social reaction that came to dominate thought by century’s end: The story of the founding and early institutional history of the United States is easily as enthralling as any novel. Although I read mostly novels these days, it’s good every once in a while to check in with an amazing history book, of which Six Frigates is a superb example. ![]()
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