Book: ‘Henry S. Sanford: Diplomacy And Business In Nineteenth Century America’ by Joseph A. Fry
Henry S. Sanford: Diplomacy And Business In Nineteenth Century America by Joseph A. Fry
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A very thorough writing of the activities of Henry Sanford during his professional life. The book is broken up into sections of time and then those are broken up in other sections of activities. Since a direct time line is not followed and many pages of activities over lap with other activities, it can be hard to follow all Sanford was going through collectively at the time. Especially in that some much he injected himself into went wrong time and time again.
The writing is good, but could have a bit of flare throughout. This is straight history. No photos or images. There is an impressive comprehensive bibliography, footnotes and very good index.
I did discover a few errors in the book. Specifically involving the development of the City of Sanford, the encounter with Jacob Summerlin and the Democrat-Republican-Independent battle in Florida Sanfrod was involved with. Those errors do have to make me wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the book.
Bottom line: i recommend this book: 8 out of ten points.
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