A Nation Rising: Untold Tales Of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, And Forgotten Fighters From America's Hidden History (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
This book covers American history from 1800 through 1850. it delves into six people, some famous, and some little known, who influenced their time. Much of this is not pretty being from the show the warts school of history, nonetheless, there is excellent research, and startling revelations. Did you know that the major reason that Texas revolted against Mexico, was not the repression of Santa Anna, but rather that Mexico banned slavery! Heck that wasn't in either my high school, or college text books. The author does an excellent job of linking this far gone time to today. If you are a history buff, hie thee to the library and check this one out. I see I need to establish a new shelf: E-books. This is my first e-book and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Perhaps if I wasn't so thrilled at how much I liked the e reader, I might not have rated this quite so highly. However, I found the writing clear, intriguing and interesting bits of americana. Several were stories I had heard a bit about but not in this much detail. Others were entirely new to me such as Jessica Fremont's journey out to California. I also enjoyed some of the debunking that went on. I don't know that I necessarily buy the story of John Sutter's laundrywoman being the only one to recognize that these pretty flakes were indeed gold but I don't necessarily disbelieve it either!
What do You think about A Nation Rising: Untold Tales Of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, And Forgotten Fighters From America's Hidden History (2010)?
Interesting, little-know connections between the past and the present made this book fascinating.
—Tatiana
very interesting all the history that we are not taught in school textbooks
—rosamportillo
