![]() Prose like that would do Dan Brown proud, but it gets worse. You had to admire the man.” Given such a description, one wonders why the Dutch ever lost Nieuw Amsterdam in the first place. Standing tall and erect on his peg leg, he had never looked more indomitable. ![]() Written in formulas and clichés, it stretches to the horizon with stock characters, as with this apparition of good Peter Stuyvesant: “The governor’s face was set hard as flint. Sadly, in the comparison, this novel suffers. ![]() ![]() Perhaps the qualifying subtitle of Rutherfurd’s latest cat-squasher ( Rebels of Ireland, 2006, etc.) is meant to distinguish it from, say, the sidecar volume to Ric Burns’ documentary or any number of histories. Sprawling but undercooked saga of Manhattan and environs. ![]()
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