Our family dreams : the Fletchers' adventures in nineteenth-century America
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Published
New York City : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
ISBN
9781137279811, 1137279818
Status
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
973.5 SMI
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973.5 SMI
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Published
New York City : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781137279811, 1137279818
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Description
"In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hard scrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia, shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and a prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and physician Billy captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Smith, D. B. (2016). Our family dreams: the Fletchers' adventures in nineteenth-century America . St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Daniel Blake. 2016. Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth-century America. St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Daniel Blake. Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth-century America St. Martin's Press, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Smith, Daniel Blake. Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth-century America St. Martin's Press, 2016.
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