Nina Sankovitch
Autor(a) de Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
About the Author
Nina Sankovitch launched ReadAllDay.org in 2008, and at the end of her year of reading, she was profiled in the New York Times. She continues to review books on ReadAllDay.org and for the Huffington Post. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and four sons.
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Obras de Nina Sankovitch
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1962-10-28
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Locais de residência
- Westport, Connecticut, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educação
- Harvard Law School
Tufts University - Ocupação
- Environmental lawyer
non-fiction writer
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Membros
- 998
- Popularidade
- #25,829
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Resenhas
- 67
- ISBNs
- 24
- Idiomas
- 4
John Hancock, John Adams, and Josiah Quincy were childhood friends whose families intermarried. Loyal British subjects who, through the post-war policies of King and Parliament, were involved in the evolution from loyal colony to rebellion.
Families from different backgrounds were involved were witnesses and participants in the Stamp Act Congress, the Boston Massacre, the Battle of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, the siege of Boston and the Continental Congress. They took the divergent paths of loyalists and rebels that ultimately led to the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War.
A 4 star book that looks at the relationship and choices of these 3 families on our country's path to rebellion.… (mais)