Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 AUTH-344072 introduced two unforgettable star-crossed lovers

introduced two unforgettable star-crossed lovers whose feuding families threatened to foil their romance

Has he betrayed Eva and everything the family stands for

As Mata Hari waits for her fate to be decided

I would like to sketch the story that unfolded in Don's and my private life which came to parallel so closely many of the events in this book"

ISBN10: 0199586438

Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 AUTH-344072 introduced two unforgettable star-crossed loversA New York Times Notable Book of 2013 A Kirkus Best Book of 2013 A Bookpage Best Book of 2013 Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery. With a canvas of extraordinary characters, such as P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, and L. C. Q. Lamar,