All tagged Biography

You Never Forget Your First

You Never Forget Your First

Chris Mathers Jackson
Nonfiction

Alexis Coe’s You Never Forget Your First (2020)b was a fast read and an enjoyable refresher of eighteenth-century American history.  Coe humanizes Washington, acknowledging the ways in which he positioned himself to become a prominent citizen, a revolutionary and a leader among men while recognizing the avenues in which his greatness fell short. 

The Immortal Irishman

The Immortal Irishman

Chris Mathers Jackson
Reading The West

Timothy Egan’s The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero (2016) tells the life story of Thomas Francis Meagher (pronounced Mar).  Egan’s work is a biography albeit one brimming over with adventure. Meagher’s story winds through Irish poets and liberation politicians to the penal colonies of Australia, and finally to life in the United States.