Raising Holy Hell
Dátum vydania: 01.04.1998
On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, leaving fifteen people dead. Viewed in the North as a saint of freedom and in the South as the devil incarnate, Brown was a visionary who not only foretold but made inevitable the bloody apocalypse of the Civil War. An intricate mosaic of alternating narrative voices, Bruce Old's ...
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Počet strán: 333
Rozmer: 127x197x23 mm
Hmotnosť: 245 g
Jazyk: Anglicky
EAN: 9780704380646
Rok vydania: 1998
Žáner: Angličtina - beletrie
Typ: Paperback
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On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, leaving fifteen people dead. Viewed in the North as a saint of freedom and in the South as the devil incarnate, Brown was a visionary who not only foretold but made inevitable the bloody apocalypse of the Civil War. An intricate mosaic of alternating narrative voices, Bruce Old's -Raising Holy Hell- is an explosive, multitextured evocation of the prophetic madness of the man who saw an America damned by the sin of slavery