The Monster's Handsome Face, Patty Cannon in Fiction and Fact

by Hal Roth

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964769425
• ISBN13: 9780964769427
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Nanticoke Books
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

History at its best

This books tells the exciting and timely story of the Patty Cannon Gang -- kidnappers of free blacks in early 1800's. I believe it is important for us to understand these times as they are still impacting our culture today. Mr.Roth shares with his reader actual passages from documents and accounts about this gang and their activities. I enjoyed being able to both draw my own conclusion and have benefit of Mr. Roth's incites. His format was perfect! And I love the way he organized things -- isolating a particular emphasis from each source. Very very well done. He is the first author I have read that preserves the intellectual honesty of a good historian without reducing the stories to dry pith. Such a good job. I would recommend this book for all Americans who want to understand our heritage, to people who are interested in the Chesapeake bay area, and to genealogists with family from this part of the country.