The Man Without A Country by Edward Everett Hale Hardcover Book
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The Man Without A Country by Edward Everett Hale Hardcover Book. The more real Philip Nolan, the Man without a Country, is pure fiction, like Rip Van Winkle. Seen in a cool light, the details do not look too convincing. No court-martial can ever have had the right to fix such a penalty. The more real Philip Nolan, the Man without a Country, is pure fiction, like Rip Van Winkle. His vague plotting, his trial, his wish that he might never hear of the United States again, his sentence, his long punishment: all these, however circum-stantial, were invented in Boston during the Civil War by a clergyman who told as a true story what he meant to offer as a moving sermon on patriotism. Seen in a cool light, the details do not look too convincing. No court-martial can ever have had the right to fix such a penalty. It is hard to believe that any navy could have had the patience and tact to carry it out, even if the records had been lost, and the offence had become unpardon-able because there was no authority to pardon it. But Edward Everett Hale did not see these details in a cool light. He invented them to support a passionate story.
