A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians and the Epic War for the South (Peter Cozzens)

Of the Red Stick War of 1813, and of the American Indian, past and future.

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"I have long been fascinated by the wars between the European settlers of America and those whom they conquered and displaced, the American Indians. I grew up near a famous battlefield memorial of those wars; maybe that is the reason I have often wondered why in North America, unlike in other conquered areas of the world, Europeans usually saw the Indians not as interchangeable savages, but as men not so different from themselves. Peter Cozzens here assists by offering another of his kaleidoscopic histories of those conflicts, portraying both whites and Indians as men in full. Virtue and vice; mercy and barbarity; glory and shame—all are on display, in a tale of a time when men were men, and did not seek to escape their nature. . . ."