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This 5 page paper reviews and discusses the book by Jill Lepore: The Name of War. Quotes cited from book, critical review. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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at Harvard University, continues to provide a wealth of evidence to show that while history may indeed favor the victor, the defeated still have a story to tell. The story
that the defeated have to tell in her book, The Name of War: King Philips War and the Origins of American Identity, serve to ask by what measure does one
determine the winner and the loser? In the end, Lepores book offers a one-two historical, quasi philosophical, argument stating that the Native Americans were quite capable of waging their own
bloody campaigns. Lepores expertise at researching Native American struggles with early settlers and Anglos is well established with her work in, A is for American: Letters and Other
Characters in the Newly United States, as well as her book entitled, Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents. King Philips War, however, seems to be her crowning
achievement to date, having garnered her such prestigious awards as the Bancroft Prize and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award(Publishers Weekly 2001). In this four part, eight-chapter book, Lepore examines such
topics as the language of historians, then and now, as well as the perspective of war as viewed from both sides of the issue. The instigating events which culminated in
the war with King Philip are addressed as well as the Native Americans view of the outcome of the war. Both the Prologue and the Epilogue seem necessary to both
present necessary information before the tale is told and to tie up loose ends after the tale has ended. There is some consternation among editors as well as writers as
to the necessity in this day and age for a prologue and an epilogue. In Lepores situation, the necessity was evident and the reader is glad for the inclusion. Without
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