A Sorrow in Our Heart, (Paperback)

from librken

Frustrating but interesting book about Tecumseh. Much of the book is buried in end notes, which I chose not to read after several hundred pages. In addition, the author is a history writer to his core, which means that he tells the story in vignettes that are almost always looks back--the story s...

from allwebdeals

The depth of early American deception in relations with American Indians.

from DinadansFriend

to my mind, Tecumseh and Abraham Lincoln are unique examples of the "Self-made Man", the American ideal. The fact that one was white and the other Indian pale in comparison to their mutual achievement of attaining political power and then using it for the benefit of their people as a whole, and r...

from Elliot1822

"A Sorrow In Our Heart" one of Eckert's historical novels tells the story of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, who has been said by many and myself now to be one of the if not the greatest Indian leader of all time. Tecumseh came so very close to saving his people from total destruction by the whites ...

from Elliot1822

"A Sorrow In Our Heart" one of Eckert's historical novels tells the story of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, who has been said by many and myself now to be one of the if not the greatest Indian leader of all time. Tecumseh came so very close to saving his people from total destruction by the whites ...