Benton Rain Patterson
Author of The Great American Steamboat Race: The Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the Climax of an Era
About the Author
Benton Rain Patterson has written for the New York Times and the Saturday Evening Post. He is the author of Harold and William and is professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he lives.
Works by Benton Rain Patterson
The Great American Steamboat Race: The Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the Climax of an Era (2009) 92 copies
With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown (2007) 44 copies
The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans (2005) 24 copies, 1 review
Lincoln's Political Generals: The Battlefield Performance of Seven Controversial Appointees (2014) 7 copies
The Mississippi River Campaign, 1861-1863 : the struggle for control of the western waters (2010) 4 copies
Ending the Civil War: The Bloody Year from Grant's Promotion to Lincoln's Assassination (2012) 4 copies
A reporter's interview with Jesus 2 copies
Associated Works
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1962 — Contributor — 3 copies
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- Canonical name
- Patterson, Benton Rain
- Birthdate
- 1929-12-02
- Gender
- male
- Organizations
- University of Florida
- Nationality
- USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans by Benton Rain Patterson
The Generals is a parallel biography of the contestants at the Battle of New Orleans: American, Andrew Jackson and Briton Edward Pakenham.
These parallel studies are often difficult to complete successfully and author Benton Patterson has joined a long line of others who have failed. I bought this book because I'm a sucker for anything on the War of 1812, but this book rambles so far afield I'm unclear whether I'll get much of anything out of it.
Patterson tries to do too much in order to show more provide some context to the battle. We find ourselves reviewing all of Napoleon's service in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as every other campaign in the War of 1812 whether it involved Jackson and/or Pakenham or not. There's just not sufficient focus on the principal actors to devote a book to them. By the time we get to New Orleans, we've very little about Pakenham and only a sketch of Jackson with about 110 pages left to go. We haven't learned enough about the two generals to explain their actions in this important battle.
I recommend Robert Remini's fine, brief book on this important battle. Remini, as Jackson's biographer, offers the insite that Patterson does not. show less
These parallel studies are often difficult to complete successfully and author Benton Patterson has joined a long line of others who have failed. I bought this book because I'm a sucker for anything on the War of 1812, but this book rambles so far afield I'm unclear whether I'll get much of anything out of it.
Patterson tries to do too much in order to show more provide some context to the battle. We find ourselves reviewing all of Napoleon's service in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as every other campaign in the War of 1812 whether it involved Jackson and/or Pakenham or not. There's just not sufficient focus on the principal actors to devote a book to them. By the time we get to New Orleans, we've very little about Pakenham and only a sketch of Jackson with about 110 pages left to go. We haven't learned enough about the two generals to explain their actions in this important battle.
I recommend Robert Remini's fine, brief book on this important battle. Remini, as Jackson's biographer, offers the insite that Patterson does not. show less
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