Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier - Softcover

Young, Alfred F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679761853 ISBN 13: 9780679761853

Verlag: Vintage, 2005

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Críticas:

"Young has recovered [Sampson's] life and given us a portrait of a woman with 'an extraordinary capacity for taking risks.'" --The Washington Post

"An excellent narrative. . . . Young is especially adept at explaining how Sampson pulled off her masquerade." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Young's most daring book. . . . Young finds in [Sampson's] sensational story an illumination of the norms that she struggled against by making herself extraordinary." --The New Republic

"Engaging...it is a delight to follow Young's unraveling of Sampson's masquerade." --The Boston Globe

Reseña del editor:

Follows the seventeen-month service of Deborah Sampson in the American Revolution, during which she successfully posed as a man, sharing details about her early life as an indentured servant; her achievements as a weaver, teacher, and religious rebel; and her postwar life as a wife, mother, writer, and veteran advocate. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0679761853
• ISBN 13: 9780679761853
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432