Reviews for The Virginia Papers, Volume 4, Volume 4zz Of The Draper Manuscript Collection

The average rating for The Virginia Papers, Volume 4, Volume 4zz Of The Draper Manuscript Collection based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-20 00:00:00 Jj Smith Thorough, well organized work about the Peace Chiefs of the Cheyennes. This book expands upon Peace Chiefs known by name and their places history of the plains found in works such as Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. The book is meticulously researched, with expansive notes that include known spelling variations of Peace Chief names and clarification upon the translation of their names into English. For example, note 1 for Chapter 3 states Yellow Wolf known as Oh-kohm-kho-wais in The Fighting Cheyenne by Grinnell, page 173; he is called Okohm-e-ho-wist in The Life of George Bent by Hyde, page 294. It goes on to state that the correct translation of the name is not Yellow Wolf, but it is really Yellow Coyote. This book also cites writings about the Peace Chiefs of the Cheyennes by Henry Morgan Stanley and the writer-artist Frederic Remington.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-05-09 00:00:00 Mark Altman I was only going to give it 3 or 4-stars, then I realized I was rating my own feelings, rather than the book. Before reading it, I thought there was a solution to the problem, hard to negotiate, sure, and probably not in the near future, but some sort of peaceful and mutually respectful resolution. (Didn't South-Africa?) I don't see it anymore, neither one state nor two. How she can conclude that " peace is just waiting to break through the mutually destructive occupation" is to me un-understandable: it took 28 years for the Berlin wall to come tumbling down, and it was not built to augment East Berlin's land and water resources; furthermore, there was no distrust between West- and East-Germans, only between their allies, the US and Russia. It breaks my heart to see the Palestinian people constantly shooting themselves in the foot, making all the wrong choices, and condemning themselves to fourth-world poverty; it breaks my heart to see the Jewish people whose courage and determination I admire so much, behave like a 19th century colonial power. Baltzer wrote this book with her heart, and that's how you should read it: try to forget you have an opinion, and empathize. I only wish you won't find it as depressing as I did.