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#1 Frederick's father, John, was a dry-goods merchant who had come from old Connecticut stock. He was convention-bound, but he had a deep sensitivity to the beauty of nature that influenced his son.
#2 Frederick's father, John, had been raised with a superstitious faith in the value of preaching and didactic instruction. His father arranged for him to work as a clerk...
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"The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders. More than 150 years later, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the saddle--through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi,...
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Chronicles the 1859 raid by radical abolitionist John Brown, his children and a guerilla band on Harpers Ferry, revealing how his acts, deemed terrorism by the South, prompted a counterattack by Robert E. Lee and galvanized Northern supporters during Lincoln's election campaign.
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