A Nation Rising: Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden History

Authors: Davis, Kenneth C.
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
BISAC/Subject: HIS036040, HIS036000, HIS024000
ISBN: 9780061993503, Related ISBNs: 0061993506, 9780061118210, 9780061993503
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 320,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

“History in Davis’s hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable.”
San Francisco Chronicle

Following on his New York Times bestsellers America’s Hidden History and Don’t Know Much About History, Ken Davis explores the next chapter in the country’s hidden history: the gritty first half of the 19th century, among the most tumultuous in the nation’s short life.

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