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SUMMARY:James Corbett David reads from his debut Dunmore's New World
DESCRIPTION:Dunmore’s New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore\, the last royal governor of Virginia\, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal proclamation of emancipation in American history; he also undertook an unauthorized Indian war in the Ohio Valley\, now known as Dunmore’s War\, that was instrumental in opening the Kentucky country to white settlement. In this entertaining biography\, James Corbett David brings together a rich cast of characters as he follows Dunmore on his perilous path through the Atlantic world from 1745 to 1809. \n\n\nDunmore was a Scots aristocrat who\, even with a family history of treason\, managed to obtain a commission in the British army\, a seat in the House of Lords\, and three executive appointments in the American colonies. He was an unusual figure\, deeply invested in the imperial system but quick to break with convention. Despite his 1775 proclamation promising freedom to slaves of Virginia rebels\, Dunmore was himself a slaveholder at a time when the African slave trade was facing tremendous popular opposition in Great Britain. He also supported his daughter throughout the scandal that followed her secret\, illegal marriage to the youngest son of George III—a relationship that produced two illegitimate children\, both first cousins of Queen Victoria. \nWithin this single narrative\, Dunmore interacts with Jacobites\, slaves\, land speculators\, frontiersmen\, Scots merchants\, poor white fishermen\, the French\, the Spanish\, Shawnees\, Creeks\, patriots\, loyalists\, princes\, kings\, and a host of others. This history captures the vibrant diversity of the political universe that Dunmore inhabited alongside the likes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. A transgressive imperialist\, Dunmore had an astounding career that charts the boundaries of what was possible in the Atlantic world in the Age of Revolution.
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SUMMARY:Brenda Wineapple reads from her new book Ecstatic Nation
DESCRIPTION:Dazzling in scope\, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America’s past\, when the country dreamed big\, craved new lands and new freedom\, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery. \nWith a canvas of extraordinary characters\, such as P. T. Barnum\, Walt Whitman\, Frederick Douglass\, and L. C. Q. Lamar\, Ecstatic Nation brilliantly balances cultural and political history: It’s a riveting account of the sectional conflict that preceded the Civil War\, and it astutely chronicles the complex aftermath of that war and Reconstruction\, including the promise that women would share in a new  definition of American citizenship. It takes us from photographic surveys of the Sierra Nevadas to the discovery of gold in the South Dakota hills\, and it signals the painful\, thrilling birth of modern America. \nAn epic tale by award-winning author Brenda Wineapple\, Ecstatic Nation lyrically and with true originality captures the optimism\, the failures\, and the tragic exuberance of a renewed Republic.
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