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Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrit
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780735224353
- Book Title
- Imperfect Union : How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- United States / 19th Century, Adventurers & Explorers, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / General
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 26.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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The 1831, John Fremont was born a nobody. But with help from a series of mentors he rose from obscurity and married the daughter of influential senator Thomas Hart Benton. Jessie Benton Fremont had limited options for her own career, and threw herself into the promotion of her husband as John travelled thousands of miles on horseback to map the uncharted American West. Back home, Jessie skilfully shaped the letters he sent into dramatic reports and bestselling books. She became his political adviser, helping John secure a seat in the Senate and to ultimately become the first-ever presidential nominee Republican party.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0735224358
ISBN-13
9780735224353
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038719953
Product Key Features
Book Title
Imperfect Union : How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 19th Century, Adventurers & Explorers, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / General
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
26.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E415.9.F79i67 2020
Reviews
" Imperfect Union is a fascinating, complex love story, a riveting adventure, and an important, carefully researched history, told with incredible power and skill by one of the country''s best nonfiction writers. What else could you want in a book?" --Candice Millard, author of Hero of the Empire "A noteworthy journalist of present events, Steve Inskeep turns his talents to the nineteenth-century past in this dual biography of Jessie and John C. Frémont. The title, Imperfect Union, is a pun describing both the Union of slave and free states and the union between Jessie and John. The story is engagingly written, rich in new information, and brilliantly fair to the varied characters. Timely in its attention to race, gender, and diversity, this book should fascinate both historians and the general literate public. Inskeep''s account is particularly valuable in its presentation of Jessie Frémont, not only as a wife and mother but as ghostwriter and successful propagandist for her courageous, sometimes blundering, explorer husband. He became the new Republican Party''s first presidential nominee, Abraham Lincoln''s predecessor." --Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 "Surprising and illuminating, Steve Inskeep''s Imperfect Union does what great history should do: it tells a story of consequence with verve and with an appreciation of the role of human agency in the broad affairs of a people. The story of the Frèmonts has helped shape our own story. Read this terrific book to find out how." --Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America "This captivating dual biography of John C. Frèmont and his wife Jessie Benton Frèmont portrays the rise and fall of the illegitimate son of an immigrant who became a famous explorer of the American West, a founding father of California as part of the United States, and ran for president as the first candidate of the fledgling Republican party in 1856. John''s career peaked in his early forties while Jesse emerged as the stronger partner in this famous marriage and earned a contemporary reputation as "the better man of the two," an opinion that the reader will likely share." --James McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era "Steve Inskeep''s Imperfect Union is a masterfully written dual biography of how Jessie and John Frémont won the American West. Action-packed stories about the Mexican War, the Oregon Trail, the California wilderness, and the Civil War are bountiful. And the political intrigue surrounding the birth of the Republican Party offered is marvelous. Highly recommended!" --Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University and author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America "A noteworthy journalist of present events, Steve Inskeep turns his talents to the nineteenth-century past in this dual biography of Jessie and John C. Frémont. The title, Imperfect Union, is a pun describing both the Union of slave and free states and the union between Jessie and John. The story is engagingly written, rich in new information, and brilliantly fair to the varied characters. Timely in its attention to race, gender, and diversity, this book should fascinate both historians and the general literate public. Inskeep''s account is particularly valuable in its presentation of Jessie Frémont, not only as a wife and mother but as ghostwriter and successful propagandist for her courageous, sometimes blundering, explorer husband. He became the new Republican Party''s first presidential nominee, Abraham Lincoln''s predecessor." --Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 ., "Highly readable . . . A lively introduction to a pair of flawed yet extraordinary figures in the nation's movement westward." -- Kirkus " Imperfect Union is a fascinating, complex love story, a riveting adventure, and an important, carefully researched history, told with incredible power and skill by one of the country's best nonfiction writers. What else could you want in a book?" --Candice Millard, author of Hero of the Empire "A noteworthy journalist of present events, Steve Inskeep turns his talents to the nineteenth-century past in this dual biography of Jessie and John C. Frémont. The title, Imperfect Union, is a pun describing both the Union of slave and free states and the union between Jessie and John. The story is engagingly written, rich in new information, and brilliantly fair to the varied characters. Timely in its attention to race, gender, and diversity, this book should fascinate both historians and the general literate public. Inskeep's account is particularly valuable in its presentation of Jessie Frémont, not only as a wife and mother but as ghostwriter and successful propagandist for her courageous, sometimes blundering, explorer husband. He became the new Republican Party's first presidential nominee, Abraham Lincoln's predecessor." --Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 "Surprising and illuminating, Steve Inskeep's Imperfect Union does what great history should do: it tells a story of consequence with verve and with an appreciation of the role of human agency in the broad affairs of a people. The story of the Frèmonts has helped shape our own story. Read this terrific book to find out how." --Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America "This captivating dual biography of John C. Frèmont and his wife Jessie Benton Frèmont portrays the rise and fall of the illegitimate son of an immigrant who became a famous explorer of the American West, a founding father of California as part of the United States, and ran for president as the first candidate of the fledgling Republican party in 1856. John's career peaked in his early forties while Jesse emerged as the stronger partner in this famous marriage and earned a contemporary reputation as "the better man of the two," an opinion that the reader will likely share." --James McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era "Steve Inskeep's Imperfect Union is a masterfully written dual biography of how Jessie and John Frémont won the American West. Action-packed stories about the Mexican War, the Oregon Trail, the California wilderness, and the Civil War are bountiful. And the political intrigue surrounding the birth of the Republican Party offered is marvelous. Highly recommended!" --Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University and author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, "Steve Inskeep, particularly aware of our current cultural moment in his role as the host of NPR''s "Morning Edition," has given us a history to learn from in his book Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War. Present are all the things we like in an American tale: frontier adventure, fame and a conflict that''s cast as tragic and romantic. But Inskeep, wise to the lure he has set out, doesn''t give us the story we expect. . . Inskeep deepens the tale beyond the traditional American narrative, giving us an insightful look at two people who seem familiar even all these years later: an ambitious and brilliant woman shackled by her gender and an imperfect dreamer who often comes close to doing the right thing. Within the political theater of this pre-Civil War drama, we just might find ourselves." -- Bookpage , starred review "An insightful and welcome biography of consequential Americans." -- Booklist "Highly readable . . . A lively introduction to a pair of flawed yet extraordinary figures in the nation''s movement westward." -- Kirkus " Imperfect Union is a fascinating, complex love story, a riveting adventure, and an important, carefully researched history, told with incredible power and skill by one of the country''s best nonfiction writers. What else could you want in a book?" --Candice Millard, author of Hero of the Empire "A noteworthy journalist of present events, Steve Inskeep turns his talents to the nineteenth-century past in this dual biography of Jessie and John C. Frémont. The title, Imperfect Union, is a pun describing both the Union of slave and free states and the union between Jessie and John. The story is engagingly written, rich in new information, and brilliantly fair to the varied characters. Timely in its attention to race, gender, and diversity, this book should fascinate both historians and the general literate public. Inskeep''s account is particularly valuable in its presentation of Jessie Frémont, not only as a wife and mother but as ghostwriter and successful propagandist for her courageous, sometimes blundering, explorer husband. He became the new Republican Party''s first presidential nominee, Abraham Lincoln''s predecessor." --Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 "Surprising and illuminating, Steve Inskeep''s Imperfect Union does what great history should do: it tells a story of consequence with verve and with an appreciation of the role of human agency in the broad affairs of a people. The story of the Frèmonts has helped shape our own story. Read this terrific book to find out how." --Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America "This captivating dual biography of John C. Frèmont and his wife Jessie Benton Frèmont portrays the rise and fall of the illegitimate son of an immigrant who became a famous explorer of the American West, a founding father of California as part of the United States, and ran for president as the first candidate of the fledgling Republican party in 1856. John''s career peaked in his early forties while Jesse emerged as the stronger partner in this famous marriage and earned a contemporary reputation as "the better man of the two," an opinion that the reader will likely share." --James McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era "Steve Inskeep''s Imperfect Union is a masterfully written dual biography of how Jessie and John Frémont won the American West. Action-packed stories about the Mexican War, the Oregon Trail, the California wilderness, and the Civil War are bountiful. And the political intrigue surrounding the birth of the Republican Party offered is marvelous. Highly recommended!" --Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University and author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
Copyright Date
2020
Lccn
2019-030462
Dewey Decimal
910.92/2 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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