![]() ![]() ![]() Quanah Parker rose to the status of a prominent war-chief by the early 1870s, when several U.S. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon is both a superb work of history and a fast-paced, gripping narrative on par with the some of the smartest historical fiction on the market.This is the story of Quanah Parker, the half-breed Quahadis Comanche (Gwynne informs us that the Quahadis were the most reclusive and warlike of that whole reclusive and warlike people), son of the famous Indian abductee Cynthia Ann Parker (“the white squaw” as she was nicknamed when it became common knowledge that she didn't want to be “rescued” from her captors) and a Comanche brave. A glance at the very Nonfiction Bestseller list we're dissecting this time around seems to confirm the worst: three of the top slots are occupied by wide-margined 100-page pamphlets of no intellectual merit whatsoever.The gods of reading must be watching out for me this time around, however, because I drew a winner, a book that would have stood out against far, far stiffer competition: S.C. Fewer and fewer adults are reading at all, and those who are have definitely grown lazier over the last four or five decades. After all, the latest reading-polls of adult Americans are not promising. GwynneScribner, 2010 I naturally looked at this whole endeavor with trepidation. ![]()
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