Books by John Mack Faragher and Complete Book Reviews

John Mack Faragher. Norton, $35 (592p) ISBN 978-0-393-05136-0
Faragher (Out of Many), a professor of history at Yale and a Southern California native, skillfully explores the history of California and Los Angeles during the middle of the 19th century. Following California’s establishment of statehood in 1850,...
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John Mack Faragher, Author . Norton $28.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-393-05135-3
Faragher relates, in all its complex, searingly sad details, the story of how the hapless French Acadians were run out of their Nova Scotia homes—a story known to most from Longfellow's Evangeline . Caught between French and British...
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John Mack Faragher, Author Henry Holt & Company $27.5 (429p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1603-1
The popular image of Daniel Boone is that of an unlettered backwoodsman, skilled hunter and Indian fighter. But evidence argues that he was reasonably well educated for his time and place, that he was a landowner, businessman and a respected leader...
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John Mack Faragher, Author, Florence Howe, Editor W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-393-02501-9
This collection of 10 essays from the 1987 Mount Holyoke College sesquicentennial symposia contributes importantly, in the variety of topics addressed, to the developing field of women's history. Mount Holyoke is a celebrated pioneer institution of...
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