false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16888.jpg 16888 4 John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country&#8211;often alone and on foot&#8211;to render his avian subjects on paper. The works of art he created gave the world its idea of America. They gave America its idea of itself. <br><br>Here Richard Rhodes vividly depicts Audubon&#8217;s life and career: his epic wanderings; his quest to portray birds in a lifelike way; his long, anguished separations from his adored wife; his ambivalent witness to the vanishing of the wilderness. <i>John James Audubon: The Making of an American</i> is a magnificent achievement. 871711 2004 John James Audubon: The Making of an American total:65|5:23|4:28|3:11|2:2|1:1| 65 265 114 22 4 1 false false Sun Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jul 18 04:53:56 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 03 06:08:04 -0800 2008
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The diligence, energy, and passion Audubon had for his desire to document the birds of America is astounding and probably d...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 06:00:55 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 05:24:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 10:26:55 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 06:28:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:28:28 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:28:28 -0800 2009 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb comes a far different story about the intersection of innovation and death__Audubon had to kill his subjects, after all, to illustrate them. Critics differ in opinion about Rhodes's newest effort. Rhodes certainly offers a compe...

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