Word: pattonism
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Charging Lannon with political patton age and administrative improprieties, the committee voted two weeks ago not to renew his contract, which expires in August. A four-member committee majority has since defeated motions to reinstate...
...from proposing in the poetic and impromptu manner ascribed to have by Province, Patton carefully thought out the place and circumstances for his proposal. The actual circumstances of Patton's marriage proposal are available to the general public, and indeed. Province claims to have consulted The Patton Papers by Martin Blumenson; one would expect a telling of the tale to be closer to Patton's own description than it is, or at least to make a gesture at cleaning up the inconsistency...
...book is divided into two parts, the first written by Province, the second compiled by him. In the first half, the author discusses the more famous incidents in Patton's career, reconstructing, for example, the speech Patton gave on the eve of D-Day, and giving the background to "The Slapping Incidents." One regrets the absence of footnotes or dates, which turns the fascinating quotes given in the book into the very questions the book is supposed to resolve. The lack of scholarly notation is especially felt in the chapter called "The Philosophy," which consists entirely of quotes culled from...
...LAST SECTION of the book (running for nearly 150 pages) combines all the problems of what has gone before. It consists of Patton's quotations, his general orders, and some of his poems--selected without apparent logic. Province presents Patton's quotations by subject, devoting six pages to General Dwight D. Eisenhower (whom he casts as Patton's nemesis) and several pages to Patton's maxims, and to "Miscellaneous." Charles M. Province is a student of quotations, it would seem, but he chooses them uncritically. The book suffers first by the subordination of notation to quotation, and further, from...
...Unknown Patton is not even intellectually seminal. The flaws of its structure, and the lopsidedness of its construction, might be in some way excused by an exciting new interpretation of Patton's persona. What emerges is instead a tired rehashing of the Patton story, written with an uncritical eye in an unfortunate literary style. Despite the title, one gains from The Unknown Patton no new understanding of this dashing, irritating but always effervescent man. Most or all of the material presented has been seen before, and Province's running commentary lacks the intellectual backing for any kind of credibility. Province...