THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS

This battle, little celebrated in the list of so many more important ones in United States history, is best studied to learn more about the personalities involved, especially Andrew Jackson, and the state of the country in those early years after the American Revolution. Both armies were eclectic mixtures fighting with primitive, but effective, techniques. Luckily, the good guys won. The narrator, a celebrated stage actor with a lifetime of experience with words, occasionally gets a little carried away, inappropriately dramatizing plainly informational phrases to the point of distraction from the text. The reader's best quality is the ability to pronounce every word clearly and distinctly. J.A.H. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC/JAN 01]