When Devoto pulls out his Sharp Knife of Scathification, he doesn't mess around.
I felt that he also Othered the Mormons to some extent--and he grew up as a non-Mormon in rural Utah, so that may have something to add to his issues there. You're right that a lot of it the effect of the time he was raised and wrote in, and he certainly doesn't begin to compare to Francis Parkman in that regard, but it is most annoying, at the very least.
I liked Across the Wide Missouri as well, but The Course of Empire has been a slog and then some.
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Date: 2008-12-05 07:46 pm (UTC)I felt that he also Othered the Mormons to some extent--and he grew up as a non-Mormon in rural Utah, so that may have something to add to his issues there. You're right that a lot of it the effect of the time he was raised and wrote in, and he certainly doesn't begin to compare to Francis Parkman in that regard, but it is most annoying, at the very least.
I liked Across the Wide Missouri as well, but The Course of Empire has been a slog and then some.