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    White Savage
    William Johnson and the Invention of America

    by Fintan O’Toole

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    • Release date: October 5, 2005
    • Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
    • Characters: Thomas Gage, Robert Rogers, General Daniel Webb, George III of the United Kingdom, Anne, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland
    • ISBN: 9780374281281 (0374281289)
    • Format: hardcover, 402 pages
    • Author: Fintan O’Toole
    • Language: english
    • Places: Mohawk River, North America, Fort William Henry, Lake George, North America, Iroquois Confederacy, North America
    • Genres: history, biography

    About The Book

    A provocative new biography of the man who forged America’s alliance with the Iroquois.

    William Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Catholic family to become a Protestant in the service of Britain’s North American empire. In New York by 1738, Johnson moved to the frontiers along the Mohawk River, where he established himself as a fur trader and eventually became a landowner with vast estates; served as principal British intermediary with the Iroquois Confederacy; command British, colonial, and Iroquois forces that defeated the French in the battle of Lake George in 1755; and created the first groups of “rangers,” who fought like Indians and led the way to the Patriots’ victories in the Revolution.

    As Fintan O’Toole’s superbly researched, colorfully dramatic narrative makes clear, the key to Johnson’s signal effectiveness was the style in which he lived as a “white savage.” Johnson had two wives, one European, one Mohawk; became fluent in Mohawk; and pioneered the use of Indians as active partners in the making of a new America. O’Toole’s masterful use of the extraordinary (often hilariously misspelled) documents written by Irish, Dutch, German, French, and Native American participants in Johnson’s drama enlivens the account of this heroic figure’s legendary career; it also suggests why Johnson’s early multiculturalism unraveled, and why the contradictions of his enterprise created a historical dead end.

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