In his own inimitable style, Davy Crockett describes his earliest days in Tennessee, his two marriages, his career as an Indian fighter, his bear hunts, and his electioneering.
In his own inimitable style, Davy Crockett describes his earliest days in Tennessee, his two marriages, his career as an Indian fighter, his bear hunt...
A moving and disturbing work one which goes beyond events, to brood upon their meanings. Samuel Hynes, New York Times Book Review In the summer of 1863, Adam Rosenzweig leaves a Bavarian ghetto and sails for the United States to fight for the North in the Civil War. Fired by a revolutionary idealism inherited from his father, he hopes to aid a cause that he believes to be as simple as he knows it to be just. Over the course of his journey, Adam becomes witness to a world whose complexity does not readily conform to his ideals of liberty. When his twisted foot attracts unwanted...
A moving and disturbing work one which goes beyond events, to brood upon their meanings. Samuel Hynes, New York Times Book Review In the summer of...
