Mordecai: An Early American Family

An Intimate Portrait of a Jewish American Family in America's First CenturyMordecai is a brilliant multigenerational history...
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Author: Emily Bingham
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Mordecai: An Early American Family by Bingham, Emily

Mordecai: An Early American Family

$235.85

Mordecai: An Early American Family

$235.85
Author: Emily Bingham
Format: Paperback
Language: English

An Intimate Portrait of a Jewish American Family in America's First Century

Mordecai is a brilliant multigenerational history at the forefront of a new way of exploring our past, one that follows the course of national events through the relationships that speak most immediately to us-between parent and child, sibling and sibling, husband and wife. In Emily Bingham's sure hands, this family of southern Jews becomes a remarkable window on the struggles all Americans were engaged in during the early years of the republic.

Following Washington's victory at Yorktown, Jacob and Judy Mordecai settled in North Carolina. Here began a three generational effort to match ambitions to accomplishments. Against the national backdrop of the Great Awakenings, Nat Turner's revolt, the free-love experiments of the 1840s, and the devastation of the Civil War, we witness the efforts of each generation's members to define themselves as Jews, patriots, southerners, and most fundamentally, middle-class Americans. As with the nation's, their successes are often partial and painfully realized, cause for forging and rending the ties that bind child to parent, sister to brother, husband to wife. And through it all, the Mordecais wrote-letters, diaries, newspaper articles, books. Out of these rich archives, Bingham re-creates one family's first century in the United States and gives this nation's early history a uniquely personal face.



Author: Emily Bingham
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 05/03/2004
Pages: 346
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780809070169

About the Author
Emily Bingham is an independent scholar living in Louisville, Kentucky. Mordecai is her first book.


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