Named one of the top twenty books every Irish American should read by Irish Central
The Civil War has just entered its third bloody year, and the North is about to impose its first military draft, a decision that will spark the most devastating and destructive urban riot in American history. Banished Children of Eve traces that event as its tentacles grip New York City. The cast is drawn from every stratum: a likeable and laconic Irish-American hustler, an ambitious and larcenous Yankee stockbroker, an immigrant serving girl, a beautiful and mysterious mulatto actress and her white minstrel lover as well as a cluster of real-life characters, including scheming, ever-pompous General George Mc Clellan; fiery, fierce Archbishop “Dagger John” Hughes; and fast-declining musical genius Stephen Foster. The fates of these characters coalesce in the cataclysm of the Draft Riots, as a pivotal period in the history of New York and the nation is painfully, vividly, magically bought to life.
Peter Quinn
Banished Children of Eve
A Novel of Civil War New York
Banished Children of Eve
A Novel of Civil War New York
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 624 ● ISBN 9780823294107 ● File size 57.7 MB ● Publisher Fordham University Press ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2021 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7750467 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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