He Wouldn't Be King: The Story of Simon Bolivar

He Wouldn't Be King: The Story of Simon Bolivar

Reviews:
â€œA finely proportioned narrative.â€ The New York Times

â€œWorth its weight in gold. A warm dramatic story of a man whose career was one of the most astonishing and colorful the world has known.â€ Parents Magazine

SIMÃ“N BOLÃVAR, hailed as Liberator by the people of South America, occupies the same place in their affections that George Washington does in ours. An aristocrat and a wealthy man like Washington, he risked position, wealth, and life itself to free South America from the unhappy rule of Spain. Like Lincoln in his love for the common man, he brought about the abolition of slavery a generation before that institution was ended here.

HE WOULDN'T BE KING is the first modern biography of BolÃvar in English for young people, yet history provides few more exciting tales than the march across the Andes of BolÃvar's small but dauntless army; it can offer few stories to compare in color and surprise with Bolivar's courageous career.

Nina Brown Baker tells BolÃvar's story fully and vividly. She has not only so portrayed the ideals of the man that we are the better for knowing him, but she has also given us the background that enables us to understand both BolÃvar and the South America of today.

More from the New York Times, New Books for Younger Readers, March 15, 1942.

By Ellen Lewis Buell. HE WOULDN'T BE KING. The Story Of Simon Bolivar. By Nina Brown Baker. Illustrated by Camilo Egas. 306 pages. New York: The Vanguard Press.

SIMÃ“N BOLÃVAR was a hero not merely through force of circumstances and period. He was truly cast in a heroic mold and should be known wherever greatness of spirit as well as deed is revered. His life is of special significance to us of the United States, not only beÂcause of our growing sympathy with South America, but because it was from our own Revolution and our first leader, WashingÂton, that he drew much of the inÂspiration to win freedom for his own part of the Americas.
It was a life so full and so draÂmatic that there is plenty of room for both the fine biograÂphies for young people which this year has brought forth. It would indeed be difficult, and is unnecÂessary. to make a final choice beÂtween Elizabeth Waugh's "SimÃ³n Bolivar: A Story of Courage," previously reviewed in this department and Nina Brown Baker's "He Wouldn't Be King," which has won the 1941 Intra-American Award annually preÂsented by the Society for the Americas. Mrs. Baker's is perÂhaps more dramatic in its presÂentation of an essentially draÂmatic life, and certainly there is a twinkling humor to throw into perspective some of the lighter aspects of a career and a strugÂgle which inevitably took on at times a certain comic opera flaÂvor, which really emphasizes the size of the task performed.
This would be good reading if only for the sketches of the colÂorful figures which surrounded BolÃvar: the picturesque, incrediÂble PÃ¡ez: the dashing and equally incredible Manuela SÃ¡enz, his eccentric tutor, Rodriguez; the loyal and charming Irishmen who fought under him. A host of such friends, and enemies too. come to life, but all these are properly dominated by the LiberÂator himself, and as the pattern of his life is unfolded in a finely proportioned narrative so is the greatness of his vision and of his achievement.
Country USA
Manufacturer Ebooks for Students, Ltd.
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-02-28
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Ebooks for Students, Ltd.
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-02-28
Format	Kindle eBook

He Wouldn't Be King: The Story of Simon Bolivar

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