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The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity Unknown Binding
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- ASIN : B003IWYIDM
- Language : English
- Unknown Binding : 304 pages
- Item Weight : 1.55 pounds
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Andrew Ellicott was truly a giant and a genuine genius: He is an archetype both similar and different to Benjamin Franklin. What I found intriguing was the amazing impact that one person could have - yet be largely unknown. The story of Andrew Ellicott is certainly worth a PBS series. I lost interest a bit after Linklater in the last third of the book focused more on the division of the land and the emergence of pro- and anti-slavery states. Still Linklater continued to demonstrate an ability to convey the complexities of events and of leading characters such as Buchanan and Douglas.
Minor criticisms: The lack of footnotes and the lack of maps are two avoidable weaknesses. Was the publisher doing things on the cheap? The lack of footnotes is particularly annoying because Linklater uses some seldom cited sources and more specific references would be very helpful. Customized maps would have reinforced the detail and scope of Ellicott's work. The maps that are included are essentially unreadable. The Appendix is a useful idea but could have been extended to illustrate Ellicott's actual surveying techniques. Perhaps these are covered in Linklater's earlier Measuring America.
Despite the above, I strongly recommend the book. I missed Andro Linklater's Measuring America but it is now on order.
part of this book is the great effect that one man, Andrew Ellicot, had on the forming of our State and
National borders! As one who loves to read history through various prisms I enjoyed learning so many new
and important features of our early history, from 1780 through 1853! The only disappointment in this
book, and this may be only my personal predilection, was that there could have been many more maps
to illustrate the detailed narrative!



