Review of Ed Cline's "Sparrowhawk" which dramatizes events leading up to the American Revolution.

The Objectivist Standard ^ | Spring 2010 | Dina Schein Federman

[gleeaikin]

One important factor for us that did not exist in South America was the endless frontier. If you didn’t like the home government you could pick up and move west. The climate and geography was much more difficult in Latin America. Also we were settled by people who had the guts and independence to leave Europe and make the dangerous voyage with their families to the New World. The Spanish and Portuguese did not do much of that in most of the early years. Family structure makes a difference.

[rlmorel]

Just wanted to say Thank You for introducing me to “Sparrowhawk”.

I am into the third book, and am enjoying it immensely. I am at the part where they are celebrating Wolfe’s victory at Quebec.

The parallels in their discussions of their relationship to the Crown to many of our discussions about our relationship to the Federal Government are too numerous to mention.

But again, I can’t thank you enough. I am enjoying it, and it is capturing me like few books have recently.

[rlmorel]

I am listening to the series now (I have trouble reading) on the recommendation of Freeper Hugh Kenrick (drat-he has the name!) who started this thread, and the focus has been, up to this point, of England between 1740 and 1760.

The author is framing his work this way deliberately, showing how men who were loyal English subjects came, over time, to question and then break from their King. The author is setting the table, and I, for one, love it.

I imagine I am not alone in my historical deficiency when I focus on the years between 1763-1783 and am stunted in my understanding of the conflict (especially in the context of how it is relevant to what what we are experiencing today)

That is a deficiency many of us have on various subjects, and I appreciate the context this author provides from the timeframe in the 1740-1760 range, because it addresses the many conflicts and questions that a number of us are struggling with right now.

I suppose reading “Sparrowhawk” might be viewed by some parts of our current society in the same fashion as the reading of “Hyperborea” is by many Englishmen in the “Sparrowhawk” series.

[LS]

Dave Dougherty and I are getting ready to write the “Politically Incorrect Guide to th American Revolution” and you could say the Revolution began almost the moment England gave up close control of the colonies in the 1600s because of Protestantism and the common law heritage-—which Canada never had.

[Pelham]

IIRC some of King George’s people regarded the Revolution as a Presbyterian war against the Crown.

[LS]

Very close. That’ s what we are going to argue.