false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174432218m/398884.jpg 398884 6 Texas A&M University professor H.W. Brands enhances his reputation as one of America's great popular historians with <I>The Age of Gold</I>, which tells the story of the California gold rush through rollicking narrative and intelligent analysis. "James Marshall's discovery of gold at Coloma [in 1848] turned out to be a seminal event in history, one of those rare moments that divide human existence into before and after," he writes. It launched "the most astonishing mass movement of people since the Crusades" and "helped initiate the modern era of American economic development." Brands describes how thousands of people from all over the world hazarded the journey, faced the scientific challenge of extracting precious metal from the earth, and finally struggled "to sink roots" where so many came merely "to strip the land." This book is something of a departure for Brands, who most recently has written biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt (both of them excellent). Yet he tackles this new topic with confidence, telling dozens of stories about John Fremont, Leland Stanford, and less famous forty-niners. He concludes by describing why these tales have a national and even global importance. <I>The Age of Gold</I> is magnificent in its sweep, and not to be missed by fans of American history. <I>--John Miller</I> 388332 2002 The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream total:73|5:18|4:35|3:16|2:4|1:0| 73 286 120 16 398884 0385720882 9780385720885 69 14 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174432218m/398884.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/398884.The_Age_of_Gold_The_California_Gold_Rush_and_the_New_American_Dream 5 0 false Sun Mar 15 15:43:49 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 15:43:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 398884 0385720882 9780385720885 69 14 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174432218m/398884.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/398884.The_Age_of_Gold_The_California_Gold_Rush_and_the_New_American_Dream 3 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jul 24 17:11:50 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 17:12:03 -0700 2009
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