Justin Martin: 5 books
Rebel Souls
Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality.
Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan-rightly considered...
Genius of Place
The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The full and definitive biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, influential abolitionist, ardent social reformer and conservationist, and the visionary designer of Central Park
Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about....
A Fierce Glory
Antietam--The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
On September 17, 1862, the "United States" was on the brink, facing a permanent split into two separate nations. America's very future hung on the outcome of a single battle--and the result reverberates to this day. Given the deep divisions that still rive the nation, given what unites the...
Pynchon's Against the Day
A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades-from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after...
Hautnah
Sinnliche Begegnungen
Language: German
Release Date: December 1, 2012
18 sinnliche Begegnungen – Zusammentreffen unterschiedlichster Art. Sarah trifft auf Adriane und entdeckt, was man mit Pinseln alles anstellen kann. Thorsten und Arne finden auf ungewöhnliche Weise wieder zueinander und Finn zeigt Hannes, dass man nicht sehen muss, um zu lieben. Diana wird am Strand...