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William Johnson and the invention of America
By O'Toole, Fintan
- ISBN
- 978-0-37428-128-1
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 2005
In a masterly biography that reads like a novel, Irish literary and social critic O'Toole recounts the remarkable story-as exciting and suspenseful as it is historically significant-of America's first prominent political mediator and diplomat. After immigrating to New York in 1738, William Johnson rose to prominence as a landowner and a trader with neighboring Iroquois Indians, who emb...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
