The Legend of John Brown
Download or Read eBook The Legend of John Brown PDF written by Richard Owen Boyer and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Richard Owen Boyer |
Publisher | : Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1973 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015004173327 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Legend of John Brown by : Richard Owen Boyer
Book excerpt: "The accepted view of historians has dismissed Brown as a violent and unstable fanatic, thrust into symbolic prominence by the accident of approaching civil war. Richard Boyer, who has been a New Yorker writer and co-author of Labor's Untold Story (1955), has foraged in the sources as diligently as any professional historian. But the great merit of this first volume of his biography is that it restores Brown as what he was: an archetypal hero of the epic of 19th-century America, which was both pilgrimage and enterprise...." -- Godfrey Hodgson, NYT (review posted on Amazon.com)