Template:Did you know nominations/The Dawn's Early Light

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:51, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

The Dawn's Early Light

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• ... that Walter Lord's book, The Dawn's Early Light, quotes British newspapers calling U.S. President James Madison "an ambitious madman", "liar", and "serpent" during the War of 1812? Source: Lord, Walter. At Dawn We Slept (ISBN 0-393--05452-7), p. 15.
  • ALT1:... that Walter Lord's book, The Dawn's Early Light, was called "the definitive book about the burning of Washington during the War of 1812" by the Los Angeles Times? Source: "Walter Lord is Still Sailing the Titanic", LA Times, Sept. 17, 1987.

Created by JGHowes (talk). Self-nominated at 22:09, 7 July 2020 (UTC).

• Reviewed: J. N. Petit Library

  Interesting book, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. Someone will probably link the author. I prefer the ALT by far, because it describes that it's definitive, and about what, while the other is only about a person, and nothing good. - In the article: I think the long quote is too much detail for the lead, - consider to move that, and some other detail, to the body. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:40, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

  • Made changes suggested by Gerda Arendt —  JGHowes  ^talk 19:52, 19 July 2020 (UTC)