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The book was an immediate success, outselling all of Taylor's previous books both in Britain and America. [5] Harold Nicolson in a review said he enjoyed Taylor's irreverence and his "sharp snaps of paradox". [5] In a review for the New Statesman, the military historian Michael Howard wrote that
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic is a history book written by American historian Alan Taylor, published by Vintage in August 1996. It profiles the life of William Cooper, father of novelist James Fenimore Cooper, on the frontier of upstate New York. [1]
Alan Shaw Taylor (born June 17, 1955) is an American historian and scholar who, most recently, was the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. [1] A specialist in the early history of the United States, Taylor has written extensively about the colonial history of the United States , the American ...
The award-winning author of 'Real Life' and 'The Late Americans' on Henry James, 'Persuasion,' and the Book That He'd Like Turned Into a TV Show.
Joseph and His Friend was the last of Taylor's four novels. It was in the genre then known as the "New England novel". [3] [4] It was the only one to be serialized before publication in book form, with its 33 chapters appearing in The Atlantic Monthly beginning in January 1870 and ending in December.
America in the King Years is a three-volume history of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch, which he wrote between 1982 and 2006. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The three individual volumes have won a variety of awards, including the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History .
Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947) is an American author and historian who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement.
Published in 2007 as part of the Oxford History of the United States series, the book offers a synthesis history of the early-nineteenth-century United States in a braided narrative that interweaves accounts of national politics, new communication technologies, emergent religions, and mass reform movements.