Love Stories From History: The Lives and Loves of Puritans, Poets, Pioneers, Peers, Soldiers, a President and a Magician (Historic Love Stories)

Love Stories From History tells 15 stories about historic figures that read like fictional romances—but they’re all true. Each of these tales artfully weaves together biography, history and narrative for a fascinating glimpse into the love lives of legendary Americans.They will take you to important times and places over 350 years of American history. You’ll visit a New England town caught up in the Revolution, the nation’s capital during Lincoln’s presidency and a colonial Rhode Island slave plantation. The real characters in this book include: Anne Bradstreet, an aristocratic Puritan who reluctantly left England and followed her husband to the wilderness of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Alexander Scammell, the heartsick Continental Army general who found love during wartime and then lost it. Lucy Lambert Hale, a society belle and daughter of an abolitionist U.S. senator who secretly agreed to marry John Wilkes Booth. Samuel Sewall, a Salem witch trials judge who couldn’t get a date. Nathaniel Hawthorne, who holed up in his bedroom for 12 years until love brought him out of it. Jackie Robinson, whose new bride, Rachel, sustained him during his struggle to break the color line in baseball—and then to move into a white neighborhood in Danbury, Conn. They all have two things in common: They fell in love and they helped shape New England history. The authors uncovered these stories while researching their website, The New England Historical Society. These are the best they’ve found among diaries, letters, poems and historical texts. Order your copy today!
ASIN: B0CTTRYJSZ
VSKU: LFV.B0CTTRYJSZ.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Landrigan, Leslie|Landrigan, Dan
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Book is in very good condition. Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.