Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide /

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...

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Main Author: Horwitz, Tony, 1958-2019 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
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