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American Hippopotamus (English Edition) par [Jon Mooallem, The Atavist]

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In 1910, the United States—its population exploding, its frontier all but exhausted—was in the throes of a serious meat shortage. But a small and industrious group of thinkers stepped forward with an answer, a bold idea being endorsed by the likes of Theodore Roosevelt and The New York Times. Their plan: to import hippopotamuses to the swamps of Louisiana and convince Americans to eat them.

The only thing stranger than the hippo idea itself was the partnership promoting it. At its center were two hard-bitten spies: Frederick Russell Burnham, a superhumanly competent frontiersman, freelance adventurer, and fervent optimist about America’s future—Burnham would be the inspiration for the Boy Scouts—and Fritz Duquesne, a.k.a. the Black Panther, a virtuoso con man and cynical saboteur who believed only in his own glorification and revenge. Burnham and Duquesne had very recently been sworn enemies under orders to assassinate each other. They’d soon be enemies again. But for one brief and shining moment they joined behind a common cause: transforming America into a nation of hippopotamus ranchers.

In American Hippopotamus, Jon Mooallem brings to life a historical saga too preposterous to be fiction—a bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos, but also of a conflicted nation on the threshold of a bewildering new century, deciding what kind of country it would be, and what beasts it would eat.

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115 pages
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Anglais
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12 décembre 2013
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00HEWJTF4
Éditeur ‏ : ‎ The Atavist (12 décembre 2013)
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Paul Friday

The larger than life characters were fantastic but essentially it is a story about something that ...

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 26 décembre 2014

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Interesting, The larger than life characters were fantastic but essentially it is a story about something that never happened....

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Ben Hammersley

Astounding.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 30 mars 2014

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This is quite the most amazing story. Beautifully written, and almost entirely unbelievable - yet completely true. Just a brilliant read.

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Zachary Littrell

A fun and educating history lesson on America and its hippopotamuslessness

Commenté aux États-Unis le 20 septembre 2017

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Contained in these pages are acts of terrorism, multiple wars, spies, Nazis, Winston Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, water hyacinths, and, of course, hippopotamuses, and yet it is non-fiction. This is a real-life, stranger-than-fiction, account of a group of unlikely allies, with the audacity to propose an unorthodox solution to America's meat shortage problem at the opening of the 20th century: introduce hippopotamuses into Louisiana.

Naturally, as there are no hippos roaming Louisiana, it's no spoiler that the proposed bill failed to come to be. But the story is not at all about the hippos (sorry to disappoint). The book spends its time instead on the life and circumstances surrounding the hippos' larger-than-life proponents: war-hero, scout, and American paragon Frederick Burnham, and his former nemesis, the wily, nihilistic, unscrupulous Boer-native Fritz Duquesne. And the joy of this book is just the oddball assortment of coincidences and twists surrounding the one period of time where polar opposites Dequesne and Burnham's lives intersected, which Mooallem gleefully catalogues.

It's less than a hundred pages, so it's hardly an exhaustive biography on either Burnham, Dequesne, or any of the numerous interesting figures involved, but I found the longform story to be a perfectly sized slice of weird Americana.

I also give kudos to the author for seeing the opportunity to use the word "hippopotamuslessness" and seizing it.

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HistoryMatters!

Great, but...

Commenté aux États-Unis le 21 février 2014

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Great story of an unknown but fascinating chapter of American history! Well written as well. My only complaint is that I wish it had a detailed bibliography! There were several times that I wanted to know where Mooallem got his information, but that was not possible. As an American History professor, I love being able to provide my students with random, forgotten historical facts. This book is perfect for this category. However, it is hard to share said information if you are not able to corroborate the information through the original sources. I understand that this was written for a broader non-history audience, but when writing a non-fiction book about actual people and events, bibliographies are important - both for professional accountability and also to give the reader to an opportunity to continue their own journey of expanding their knowledge by going back and look and other sources on the topic if they wanted.

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R. Atkinson

Proof that real-life is often stranger than fiction

Commenté aux États-Unis le 23 décembre 2013

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Who would believe that two larger than life men, one a celebrated American scout and conservationist and the other a South African-German spy, each with orders kill the other in wartime, would meet for the first time while testifying before the U.S. House of Representatives in 1910 with a solution to the nation's much anticipated food crisis. And their solution? Import hippos and other African wildlife into America's underutilized national parks. Even back then the idea of America importing hippos and letting them loose in federal lands sounded loony, and yet editorials by respected American journalists embraced the concept. Although the bill ultimately failed, these extraordinary men nearly found the votes in Congress to make it happen.

This well-researched story is extraordinary and thoroughly entertaining. Mooallem gives the reader a good snapshot of both Major Frederick Russell Burnham, the "American scout" who was the model for the birth of the Boy Scout movement, and the "Black Panther," Captain Fritz Duquesne, a cunning psychopath who earlier in life had been sentenced to life in prison by the British and later was arrested by the FBI in what J. Edgar Hoover called "the greatest spy roundup in U.S. history." Interspersed are stories of Senator "Cousin Bob" Broussard of Louisiana, Theodore Roosevelt's African safari in 1909 and his almost successful attempt in 1917 to lead a U.S. Army Division of American Rough Riders into France, and the great quest of the New Food Supply Society to bring hippos to the bayou.

The one complaint I have with this story is that it lacks any photographs. Historical issues of Field and Stream include some great pictures of both Duquesne and Roosevelt on safari in Africa, and photos of Burnham and Broussard too are readily available. Given how easy it would be to add some of these to this ebook, the oversight is surprising.

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