Midnight Rising

Authors: Horwitz, Tony
Genres: History
Topics: Slavery, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War
Lexile: 1200,
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
ISBN: 9781429996983,
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 337,
Synopsis:

Tony Horwitz is the bestselling author of Midnight Rising, A Voyage Long and Strange, Blue Latitudes, Confederates in the Attic, and Baghdad Without a Map. He is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked for The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. He lives in Martha's Vineyard with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their two sons.

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