PETER STUYVESANT OF OLD NEW YORK

by Anna & Russel Crouse ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1954

By the playwright and his wife (who has herself had a career of article and script writing) this biography of Stuyvesant points up the man, his times and the issues that beset him and his country- with color and accuracy. It is absorbing history and though for younger readers, a better account than Rupert Holland's Peter Stuyvesant (Messner- 1953). While it tells of Stuyvesant's boyhood, it gives only the essentials and stresses the political factors that were to have their bearing on his life. The picture of him as the fighting governor of Curacao is all it should be. Later, as governor of Manhattan, no part of his weaknesses is spared, but along with the burgher quarrels and the clashes with the English and the Indians, there also is Stuyvesant, the man who loved his people.

Pub Date: March 1, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Random House

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION