All Blood Runs Red was written by Scott Harris. Scott Harris
is only an author of two books, All Blood Runs Red, and Innovations in Higher
Education: Igniting the Spark for Success (The ACE Series on Higher
Education)”. Innovations for Higher Education is aimed at college educators to
unite them for the greater good of education and focus on more dynamic efforts
and benefit the educational community. But All Blood Runs Red is a bibliography
about Eugene Jacques Bullard, a forgotten veteran. The book is a regaling tale
of adventure and overcoming adversaries and obstacles than ways to help the
U.S. education system. Eugene’s life is thought-provoking story of human
tragedies and surprising asphyxiating exploits to overcome barricades and become
the first American aviator during World War 1.
The story begins with the author visiting a museum and
overhearing two Caucasian men criticizing one of the exhibits. That exhibit
honored the first American aviator, Eugene Jacques Bullard. The author took
interest in this certain person and spent 5 years looking up his history and
background until he actually met with him face to face for an interview. As a
withered old man, he didn’t have much to offer but his stories. Mind you, his
stories are something you’d expect in a fiction book. From his legend he seemed
to have lived a full life. At the beginning of his adventure, Eugene ran away
from his home when he was 8 years old to escape to France, where a person’s
race didn’t determine your place in society. The way he escaped was he left
America by sneaking on a German U-Boat and befriended the occupants, and agreed
to drop him off in Europe but he had to make his own way to France. And that’s
only the beginning of the tall tales of Mr. Bullard, ranging from becoming a
gypsy, a WW2 spy, or marrying royalty. Throughout the book, it goes over the
racial problems of the time in real depth and how big ad serious racism really
was then. The racial barriers he was forced to overcome were set high, no
respect from any whites for serving his time in the war.
This is my favorite book that I’ve read recently and I
highly recommend others to read it because people like him are relatively
unheard of, overshadowed by Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, and such. This
book is extremely interesting because it teaches you about the times that Eugene
lived through, but in an interesting way that seems too unrealistic. People
like him or just forgotten, schools jus teaches you about MLK and that’s it
really, there are more people like him and more, it’s unfair to history that we
don’t learn more about people like Eugene. If you’re a history or adventure
fanatic, you will love this book as much as I do. It’s a great read; it’s one
of those bibliographies that seem to you back in time. This is truly a hidden
gem in library and cannot stress how much people should read this book.
Book Review by Chase M.
This books sounds interesting because it's great to hear about someone who had been overlooked by history. Another reason being that it sounds nice to learn about someone who left home to escape racial prejudice. Nothing comes to mind immediately that directly relates to this, since this seems to be something unique. If anything, this reminds me of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, seeing as how both feature a character escaping racial prejudice. The character in Huckleberry Finn however, is escaping slavery instead.
ReplyDeleteThis story sounds intriguing because I've always been interested in historical movements and strides of the African American people. The culture of the people have always fascinated me beyond belief. I will definitely have to grab a copy.
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