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The Age of Gold

The Age of Gold

The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

by H. W. Brands
Paperback
Publication Date: 14/10/2003

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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War-the epic story of the California Gold Rush, "a fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history" (David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of John Adams).

The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream-the "dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck." The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated America's imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War.

H.W. Brands tells his epic story from multiple perspectives: of adventurers John and Jessie Fremont, entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the wry observer Samuel Clemens-side by side with prospectors, soldiers, and scoundrels. He imparts a visceral sense of the distances they traveled, the suffering they endured, and the fortunes they made and lost. Impressive in its scholarship and overflowing with life, The Age of Gold is history in the grand traditions of Stephen Ambrose and David McCullough.
ISBN:
9780385720885
9780385720885
Category:
General & world history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
14-10-2003
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
592
Dimensions (mm):
203x132x33mm
Weight:
0.49kg

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