Rivkin Award for creative dissent by a midlevel FSO. A former Foreign Service officer, he served in Panama, Tijuana, Lima and Washington, D.C. Peter Cozzens is the author or editor of 17 acclaimed books on the American Civil War and the Indian Wars of the American West. Gwynne, author of the bestsellers Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell. “Cozzens’ nuanced portrait stands as one of the best pieces of Native American history I have read,” says journalist and historian S.C. The story of the two most significant siblings in Native American history takes us into the chaos and violence that characterized the young republic, when settlers spilled across the Appalachians to bloody effect in their haste to exploit lands won from the British in the War of Independence, and disregarding their rightful Indian owners. As the author states in the preface: “I have sought to redress these and other imbalances in the historical perception of the Shawnee brothers.” While Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat and war leader, Cozzens writes, it was Tenskwatawa, heretofore dismissed as a charlatan and a drunk, who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest. In the first biography of Tecumseh to appear in more than two decades, award-winning historian Peter Cozzens plumbs the historical record to tell the untold story of the great Shawnee leader and his brother, Tenskwatawa, who co-authored the largest and most powerful pan-Indian alliance to challenge the white man’s takeover of America. Peter Cozzens, Knopf, 2020, $35/hardcover, e-book available, 560 pages. Susan Brady Maitra, Senior Editor BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation This year’s roundup was assembled with the vital assistance of Publications Coordinator Dmitry Filipoff, Managing Editor Kathryn Owens and Contributing Editor Steven Alan Honley, who wrote the entries for this edition.
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Please note that, unfortunately, because of the sheer volume of volumes, we have had to limit series of more than two books to a single entry.Īs usual, we also include in this month’s focus a selection of recent books “of related interest” to diplomats and their families that were not written by FS authors. Our “potpourri” section sports 11 books that range from tales about food in Peru to a user’s guide to the U.S. This year we’re featuring 19 works of biography and history, 10 books on policy and issues, 19 memoirs, 31 novels and 10 books for children and young adults. This list of books published between 20 is not a comprehensive or definitive record of works by FS authors as always, we rely on the authors themselves to bring their books to our attention. With the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns, we wonder, has the trend now gotten an additional boost from the ease and ubiquity of online communications? This year our annotated list of books written, edited or translated by Foreign Service personnel and their family members stands at 100, up roughly 25 percent from last year-when, at 78 titles, it had nearly doubled from the year before.
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Each entry contains full publication details along with a short commentary. Our primary purpose in compiling “In Their Own Write” for publication is to celebrate the wealth of literary talent within the Foreign Service community, and to give our readers the opportunity to support colleagues by sampling their wares. The Foreign Service Journal is pleased to present our 20th annual Foreign Service authors roundup in time for holiday orders.
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