All on Fire
William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
Will be published approx. on 16. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
770 pages
978-0-393-33236-0 (ISBN)
Description
Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the era, Henry Mayer's National Book Award finalist biography of William Lloyd Garrison brings to life one of the most significant American abolitionists. Extensively researched and exquisitely nuanced, the political and social climate of Garrison's times and his achievements appear here in all their prophetic brilliance. Finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Book Prize, winner of the Commonwealth Club Silver Prize for Nonfiction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
1288 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-33236-0 (9780393332360)
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E-Book
11/2019
W. W. Norton & Company
€37.49
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Person
Henry Mayer was a National Book Award finalist for All on Fire and is the author of A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic. He died in 2000.