1877: Year of Violence / Edition 1

by Robert V. Bruce

Overview

Not simply a story of a year from our past but a dramatic account of a social and political uprising that became a crisis in the course of American development. "A spectacular story."-New York Times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780929587059
Publisher:	Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date:	12/01/1988
Edition description:	1st Elephant pbk. ed
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	1,548,945
Product dimensions:	5.56(w) x 8.68(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Robert V. Bruce is Professor of History at Boston University. He is also the author of Lincoln and the Tools of War and The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876, for which he won the Pulitzer Price in 1988.

What People are Saying About This

C. Vann Woodward

"The author goes to the sources in scholarly fashion but reports it in a popular style.... Informative and readable."

Editorial Reviews

The author goes to the sources in scholarly fashion but reports it in a popular style.... informative and readable.

C. Vann Woodward

A taut narrative that is relieved by the flashes of an appropriately sardonic humor.

The New York Times - Eric F. Goldman

A taut narrative that is relieved by the flashes of an appropriately sardonic humor.--Eric F. Goldman "The New York Times"

The author goes to the sources in scholarly fashion but reports it in a popular style.... informative and readable.--C. Vann Woodward

From the Publisher

A taut narrative that is relieved by the flashes of an appropriately sardonic humor.
— Eric F. Goldman

The New York Times

A taut narrative that is relieved by the flashes of an appropriately sardonic humor.
— Eric F. Goldman

New York Times

"A taut narrative that is relieved by flashes of an appropriately sardonic humor."
—New York Times

Eric F. Goldman