Apologies to the Iroquois - (Iroquois and Their Neighbors) by Edmund Wilson (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This is an account of an Indian people's struggle to maintain an identity in American society. Also included is a study of The Mohawks in High Steel by Joseph Mitchell.

Review Quotes

A work to be read for sheer pleasure, for the sake of a fascinating true story delightfully told.-- "New York Times Book Review"

One more of those pieces of research and detection which set him [Wilson] apart from all other American critics. He has his feet well-planted in American life.-- "V.S. Pritchett"

Provocatively suggests that the great American ideal of liberty, fathered by western Christian culture, for- got itself when it came to grips with the Indian and his differentness. It hasn't remembered itself yet.-- "Christian Science Monitor"

This is one book every American concerned with every aspect of personal identity should not miss.-- "Kirkus Reviews"

About the Author

Edmund Wilson, one of America's finest critics and essayists, served as associate editor of The New Republic and then book editor on The New Yorker. He is the author of numerous books, among them Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, and Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York (Syracuse University Press).

Joseph Mitchell is the author of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, and The Bottom of the Harbor.

William N. Fenton is the author of The False Face of the Iroquois, The Roll Call of the Iroquois, The Iroquois Eagle Dance (Syracuse University Press), and editor of Parker on the Iroquois (Syracuse University Press).