Faces
by David McCullough
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Author: David McCulloughEdition: Digital
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 2006-06-16
ISBN: N/A
Publisher: Amazon
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Book Review: Word Pictures
Summary: 5 Stars
David McCullough brings to light a point I for one have never thought about. In many cases we don't know what the very people who won our freedom looked like. It wasn't until the Civil War that we could attach a face to a famous name.
The author in a very adept way seeks to attach a face to the soldiers of the Revolution with word pictures. My minds eye can now visualize John Daby as a "long hump-shouldered fellow," and Thomas Williams with "film" in his left eye, or George Washington with smallpox scars, something his portraits didn't reveal. If you ever wondered like I have why most subjects in the old paintings never smiled, it's most likely due to the fact they had bad teeth or no teeth at all.
"Faces" is an illuminating read for anyone. I recommend it highly.FUG 10
Summary of Faces
We have no photographs from the Revolutionary War, nothing to give us the look of those who served in what they called The Glorious Cause. With no photographs to take us there, and only paintings that make it look like a costume pageant, the Revolutionary War has seemed less real, less human, infinitely more remote than ever it should be. For real it was, and human they were, those who marched with Washington. The whole story was wonderfully, painfully human. Faces are important to me in trying to understand and write about the people of other days. I need to know what they looked like. It's a point some may not care about especially, but I do.Subjects Books
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