Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393245543 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Russell Shorto is the best-selling author of The Island at the Center of the World and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine.
If Spielberg wrote history, this is how it would read.” - Howard Fineman, NBC News analyst and author of The Thirteen American Arguments“Amazing: Russell Shorto shows us what a diverse, fascinating, cosmopolitan place this country has been since its founding.” - Charles C. Through his vigorous language, his mastery of archival sources and the pleasing interweave of his six carefully chosen characters, Shorto has composed a powerful polyphonic story, simultaneously grand and intimate, that makes us hear (and see and feel) the tumult of our nation’s founding as never before.” - Hampton Sides, New York Times best-selling author of In the Kingdom of Ice. He has set them free in a rich, prismatic narrative, as intensely vivid as it is seamles
They include an African man who freed himself and his family from slavery, a rebellious young woman who abandoned her abusive husband to chart her own course and a certain Mr. From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today.Russell Shorto’s work has been praised as “first-rate intellectual history” (Wall Street Journal), “literary alchemy” (Chicago Tribune) and simply “astonishing” (New York Times).In his epic new book, Russell Shorto takes us back to the founding of the American nation, drawing on diaries, letters and autobiographies to flesh out six