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Happily Sometimes After
Andie Tucher
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Description for Happily Sometimes After
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
For more than four hundred years, members of the author’s family have been telling stories about their American lives. They have told of impassioned elopements and heart-breaking kidnaps, of hairbreadth escapes and shocking murders, of bigamists, changelings, patriots, Indians, fires, floods, and how the great-grandmother of Chief Justice John Marshall married the pirate Blackbeard by mistake.
In this beautifully written work, Andie Tucher considers family stories as another way to look at history, neither from the top down nor the bottom up but from the inside out. She explores not just what happened—everywhere from Jamestown to Boonesborough, from the ... Read more
For more than four hundred years, members of the author’s family have been telling stories about their American lives. They have told of impassioned elopements and heart-breaking kidnaps, of hairbreadth escapes and shocking murders, of bigamists, changelings, patriots, Indians, fires, floods, and how the great-grandmother of Chief Justice John Marshall married the pirate Blackbeard by mistake.
In this beautifully written work, Andie Tucher considers family stories as another way to look at history, neither from the top down nor the bottom up but from the inside out. She explores not just what happened—everywhere from Jamestown to Boonesborough, from the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625341280
SKU
V9781625341280
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About Andie Tucher
Andie Tucher is associate professor of communications at Columbia Journalism School. She is author of Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America’s First Mass Medium, winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians.
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