Of the most significant periods in American History. The revolutionary war era before the before America First as a nation, and then the runup and the aftermath of the civil war, when america experiences near death as a nation. And bunker hill, Nathaniel Philbrick chronicles boston in 1775 when british troops occupied the city and engaged a patriot militia in the bloodiest battle of the revolution and the point of no return for the rebellious columnist. Nathaniel lives in nantucket where he is a recognized authority on the history of the island, though he told an interviewer i dont think its possible to plumb the depths of this islands rich history, and obviously aficionado of sailing and seafaring, his blues include mayflower, a final just of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for history. In the heart of the sea he won the National Book award for fiction. Revenge of the whale, and sea of glory one the theodore and Franklin Roosevelt naval hit prize. Holds a bachelor in english from brown and a
Im talking just about the physicality. You can judge for the insight on your own. [laughter] but as nick said very cogently, this book covers a 30year span of American History in the middle of the 19th century when nothing much happened. [laughter] there was just, oh, i dont know, the Womens Movement and the country divided in two, and there were spiritualists and spirit rappers and p. T. Barnum all part of the same cultural moment. And then just in case you were getting bored, there was a war, a dreadful war where 750,000 people were killed, and thats probably, thats probably a figure that is not finished being revised upward. And, of course, there was the period of reconstruction that occurred in the south, and at the same time there was the settlement of the west augerred by the gold rush back in 1848 and completed with the slow and painful and very disturbing removal of the indians from that particular part of the country. Just a few things that i concerned myself with for the last
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