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Rammelkamp, Charles

 
9781627201513: American Zeitgeist
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ISBN 10: 1627201513 ISBN 13: 9781627201513
Editorial: Apprentice House, 2017

Sinopsis

American Zeitgeist is a collection of dramatic monologues about the life and career of William Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner, from his rise as populist hero of the Democratic Party in the 19th century to his ignominious end at the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. Related mostly in the voice of a fictional contemporary named Jefferson Powers, a journalist, and framed by lectures on Bryan and the Progressive Era by a fictional modern-day History professor, Jefferson Lynn, the arc of this narrative serves as commentary on the American spirit and should be read as historical fiction. As the writer David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks) notes, the popularity of historical fiction lies in its double narrative thrust.  It “delivers a stereo narrative,” Mitchell writes, “from one speaker comes the treble of the novel’s own plot while the other speaker plays the bass of history’s plot.”   American Zeitgeist conforms to this model. This is a page-turner that delivers history and drama in equal measure.

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American Zeitgeist is a collection of dramatic monologues about the life and career of William Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner, from his rise as populist hero of the Democratic Party in the 19th century to his ignominious end at the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. Related mostly in the voice of a fictional contemporary named Jefferson Powers, a journalist, and framed by lectures on Bryan and the Progressive Era by a fictional modern-day History professor, Jefferson Lynn, the arc of this narrative serves as commentary on the American spirit and should be read as historical fiction. As the writer David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks) notes, the popularity of historical fiction lies in its double narrative thrust.  It “delivers a stereo narrative,” Mitchell writes, “from one speaker comes the treble of the novel’s own plot while the other speaker plays the bass of history’s plot.”   American Zeitgeist conforms to this model. This is a page-turner that delivers history and drama in equal measure.

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Editorial
Apprentice House
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1627201513
ISBN 13 
9781627201513
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
166
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