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Ranking radical ranter that he is, Shoemaker also has, at times, an engaging side. An artful versifier, a Shakespearean reader (with gestures), a raconteur, he can sit for hours recalling his Munchausen exploits. No sketch of him is complete without his own War story...
None of Chicago's four standard-sized newspapers being pro-New Deal, Reader Coney's choice is limited to the tabloid Daily Times...
...Journals of Lewis and Clark. It is clear that he was acquainted with it because he has quoted passages from it several times although their dignified and flowing style makes the elementary rhetorical devices of Wilson appear to be feeble efforts of a grammar school debater. The reader is apt to find tedious a constant repetition of "and now, by God, he was ready. . . ." "but, by God, he was . . ." and in the same category may well be placed the omnipresent references to the shining eyes and wagging tail of Brewster, the canine mascot of the expedition, as he scampered gaily...
...most part, well chosen passages extracted from the journals is that recording the fact that "We purchased two gallons of Whiskey for our party for which we were obliged to give Eight dollars. . . . an imposition." There are also several references to the Missouri Valley Indians that may make the reader change his views on the general level of morality of our aborigines...
...volume is incoherent, over-expanded, the pictures of contemporary life are a dismal failure and after having finished the book the reader is of the opinion that Mr. Wilson had a great fund of information about an interesting subject but that it has been unfortunately presented in a manner that makes the volume valuable only through a few isolated passages...