"A fast-paced, moving story, one that is difficult to believe and impossible to forget." --New York Times
Date of Review:
May.14.2006
Reviewer:
Candice Millard
Source:
New York Times
"Schneider, the author of "The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness" and "The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket," deftly describes the striking reversal of roles between the native North Americans and their would-be enslavers. Having come to the New World believing that they were not only conquerors but also saviors — bringing civilization and Christianity to the savages — the Spaniards soon found themselves objects of the Indians' pity and disgust. Sick, naked and starving, they moved one tribe to tears. And when they resorted to cannibalism, they were nearly massacred for the abomination."
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A biography so intimate it feels like an act of ventriloquism...Bonnie and Clyde takes off like a combustion engine, driving the narrative toward its gruesome climax. A cross between ballad and pulp fiction, the book is a close encounter with killers at play.”
—O, the Oprah Magazine
About Paul
Paul is the author, most recently, of Bonnie and Clyde: the Lives Behind the Legend, (Henry Holt, 2009), which the LA Times called "extraordinarily immediate," and O, the Oprah Magazine said "a biography so real it feels like an act of ventriloquism." ...
Causes Paul Schneider Supports
The usual suspects for a writer from Massachusetts, living on Martha's Vineyard no less.