Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff audiobook

Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

By Maya Jasanoff
Read by L. J. Ganser

Recorded Books, Inc.

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 3 Formats: CD
  • 3 Formats: Library CD
  • 3 Formats: MP3 CD

  • ISBN: 9781664411654

  • ISBN: 9781664519480

  • ISBN: 9781664668225

Runtime: 16.18 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/History
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

A 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction Finalist

Maya Jasanoff won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her groundbreaking work Liberty's Exiles. After the American Revolution, 60,000 British loyalists fled the U.S. for Canada, the Caribbean, India, and other points abroad. Jasanoff traces their harrowing journeys across the globe, shedding light on their ambitions, the post-revolutionary world they encountered, and their legacies.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“A smart, deeply researched and elegantly written history.” —York Times Book Review 
“[Maya Jasanoff’s] ability to blend structural analysis with engrossing accounts of personal experience makes Liberty’s Exiles a highly readable book as well as an informative one.”  —Wall Street Journal
“A masterful account of the struggles, heartbreak, and determination that characterized specific Loyalist families and individuals.”  —Publishers Weekly (starred review) 
“Ambitious, empathetic and sometimes lyrical.”  —Washington Post 
“Jasanoff’s notable achievement is to engage the reader’s interest, and sympathies, in the travails of the Revolution’s losers.”  —Boston Globe
“Spirited and engaging.”  —New York Review of Books
“Brilliant.”  —Newsweek
“A fascinating, important  and beautifully written investigation that ought to be required reading for anyone who thinks America’s founding was an unambiguous instance of liberty and justice throwing off the shackles of tyranny and oppression.”   —Seattle Times
“Brilliant, seminal work.” —Dallas Morning News
“Jasanoff’s book is history at its best.”  —Richmond-Times Dispatch 
“Jasanoff has written [the loyalists] a fitting tribute.”  —Daily Beast

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Author

Author Bio: Maya Jasanoff

Author Bio: Maya Jasanoff

Maya Jasanoff is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard. She is the author of the prize-winning Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 and Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and the George Washington Book Prize. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, she won the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction. Her essays and reviews appear frequently in publications including the New York Times, Guardian, and New York Review of Books.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/History
Runtime: 16.18
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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