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American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation

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By (author): John Kaag

The Bloods were one of Americas first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers - geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual - that would become the very core of the United States. John Kaags American Bloods is the account of a remarkable American family, of its participation in the making of a nation, and of how its members embodied the elusive ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. Kaag follows eight members of this family from the British Civil War in the seventeenth century through the founding of the colonies, the American Revolution, Transcendentalism, the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War, and the rise of first-wave feminism, all the way to the beginning of the twentieth century. The Bloods were active participants in virtually every pivotal moment in American history, coming into contact with everyone from Emerson and Thoreau to John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Victoria Woodhull, and William James. The genealogy of the family tracks the ebb and flow of what Thoreau called wildness, an original untamed spirit that would recede in the making of America but would never be extinguished entirely. American Bloods is an enduring reminder of the risks and rewards that were taken in laying claim to the lands that would become the United States, and a composite portrait of America like no other. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 392g
  • Dimensions: 147 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Jun 2024
  • Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780374103910

About John Kaag

John Kaag is the chair and a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche both of which were named best books of the year by NPR. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Harper's Magazine The Christian Science Monitor and many other publications. He lives outside Boston with his wife and children.

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