Henry MayerAll on FireWilliam Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery“Superb.... [A] richly researched, passionately written book.” —William E. Cain, Boston GlobeWidely acknowledged as the definitive history of the era, Henry Mayer’s National Book Award finalist biography of William Lloyd Garrison brings to life one of the most significant American abolitionists. Extensively researched and exquisitely nuanced, the political and social climate of Garrison’s times and his achievements appear here in all their prophetic brilliance. “A great story... . None of [Garrison’s] earlier chroniclers matches Mayer’s writerly skill and sure narrative sense.”—Benjamin Schwarz, Los Angeles Times Book Review “Henry Mayer has written one of the best accounts we are ever likely to have of how one man’s idealistic belief in the possibility of moral regeneration and political transformation came to be realized.... A monumental work of historical biography.”—Michael Winston, Washington Post Book World “All on Fire does an outstanding job of placing Garrison in the context of the great events and issues of the era.”—James L. Swanson, Chicago Tribune Henry Mayer was a National Book Award finalist for All on Fire and is the author of A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic. He died in 2000. |
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May 2008 / trade paper / ISBN 978-0-393-33236-0 |
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