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- W1275289340 abstract "Alex Storozynski. The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and Age of Revolution. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. xiv, 370 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $29.95, cloth. $16.99, paper.Tadeusz Kosciuszko is among foremost figures of United States' War for Independence as well as of Polish radical Enlightenment, Leader (Naczelnik) of 1794 Insurrection, and a moral guide for Poles. Yet there has been no recent biography in English that explores numerous facets of this complex individual or impact he made on two nations. Alex Storozynski is current president and executive director of Kosciuszko Foundation and formerly connected to two New York City tabloids. Unfortunately, despite author's knowledge of English and Polish and his profession as a writer, this book does not provide a professional treatment of Kosciuszko' s life, achievements, and legacy.Of course, Storozynski faithfully recites key elements of Leader's life, adding frequent references to sex (or its lack in Kosciuszko' s case), but he has no framework for his narrative, only chronological episodes. There are signs of what could become such a framework - Leader's republicanism and radical Enlightenment beliefs - but these important features surface in text as additional detail rather than shapers of Kosciuszko' s life and thought. For example, Kosciuszko' s deism is clear; but Storozynski can only bear to write that Leader began to think more and more like a Deist (p. 126). Kosciuszko' s deism, anti-clericalism, and disdain for Roman Catholicism have long been difficult for certain elements in Polish politics. It seems that Storozynski shares this difficulty. Storozynski inserts his own political views again when he denounces headaches of a national (p. 180). Most historians would identify lack of an effective administration and a bureaucracy to staff it as one of reasons for Commonwealth's disappearance.In his introduction, author claims a deep familiarity with Polish history, but there are numerous faux pas: few would attribute Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's decline simply to foreign meddling in legislative affairs (p. 3) and Hasidim never dominated Jewish society in Poland (p. 138). Storozynski bizarrely assumes that if Poland's townspeople were given equal rights with Polish nobility, the Prussian middle class would have no reason to stay in Prussia (p. 135). There are no cold steppes between Warsaw and St Petersburg (p. …" @default.
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