Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. In this remarkable biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that fe...show more
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A novel based closely on the real life adventures and misadventures of the grandmother of author Jeannette Walls (author of the memoir The Glass Castle).
The book starts off in a mud house in Arizona, and doesn't get any easier from there. A fascinating glimpse into life on the Western frontier (in some ways a somewhat more recent version of Little House on the Prairie) and a character study of perseverance.
Fans of The Glass Castle will ...read more
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