Suicide Or Murder?: The Strange Death Of Governor Meriwether Lewis

Vardis Fisher

ISBN 10: 0804006164 / ISBN 13: 9780804006163

Verlag: Swallow Press, 1993

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0804006164-4-34437815

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The death of Meriwether Lewis is one of the great mysteries of American history. Was he murdered at Grinder&;s Stand or did he commit suicide? Vardis Fisher meticulously reconstructs the events and presents his own version of the case with the precision and persuasiveness of a fine trial lawyer. But Fisher was also a great novelist and it is his sense of character that serves him best here. We know Lewis&; complex sensibility as well as we know that of any man of his time &; his Journals are so self-revealing, so exacting in the record they make of his musings, doubts, and elations. Fisher offers us this complex Lewis and, with equal perceptiveness, sets the rough, frontier scene at Grinder&;s Stand. The result is a fine mystery, well solved, that leans toward tragedy.

Von der hinteren Coverseite: The death of Meriwether Lewis is one of the great mysteries of American history. Vardis Fisher meticulously reconstructs the events and presents his own version of the case with the precision and persuasiveness of a fine trial lawyer.

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Titel: Suicide Or Murder?: The Strange Death Of ...
Verlag: Swallow Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Fair