Bøger af Frank Porter

BESOTTED by the women who inflame, entice but usually elude or ignore them, What Now, Lieutenant tracks three men from the Second World War into the present century.Dr. Elder is a well-intentioned classicist/polytheist, who, having been flung into the Battle of the Bulge, emerges physically intact and embarks on a quest for a congenial wife and a stress-free life.Freddy (he'd much prefer "Fred"), Dr. Elder's unprepossessing son, aches to excel and live up to his mistaken image of his father. Daniel Shaver, Dr. Elder's disadvantaged protege and Freddy's implacable rival, is a bubbling cauldron of insatiable ambition, inexhaustible ego, and irrepressible id. He'll do whatever's expedient to triumph everywhere, whether it's the boardroom, the battlefield, or the boudoir. Meanwhile, the women are having none of it. They propel the narrative and treat the men with disdain or, at best, provisional tolerance.

?The body of this book consists of a general introductory essay, five chapters on specific tribal groups from Massachusetts to Virginia, a brief conclusion, and a bibliographical essay. The authors address an important topic in the ethnohistory of the eastern United States--the persistence of Indian enclaves that long ago were submerged within American society. They also ask an important question--what are the strategies by which these submerged groups survived? This combination of geographical focus and unifying question gives coherence to the collection. The five groups represented are the Okehocking Band of Lenape in southeastern Pennsylvania the mainland Wampanoag of Massachusetts, the Poospatuck of Long Island, the Nanticoke of Maryland and Delware, and the Powhatan-derived Citizen' Indians of Virginia. Each chapter tells a local story of adversity and adaptation.... Porter and the contributing authors deserve credit for pioneering this fertile ground. Anyone interested in eastern Native American ethnohistory will welcome this collection.?-Georgia Historical Quarterly

This bibliography includes more than 1,100 entries from books, journals, newspaper articles, and dissertations concerning North American Indian basketry.