Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393081329)

Uncle Tom's Cabin is likely the most influential novel ever written by an American. In a fitting tribute to the two hundredth anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's birth, Bancroft Prize-winning historian David S. Reynolds reveals her book's impact not only on the abolitionist movement and the American Civil War but also on worldwide events, including the end of serfdom in Russia, down to its influence in the twentieth century. He explores how both Stowe's background as the daughter in a famously intellectual family of preachers and her religious visions were fundamental to the novel. And he demonstrates why the book was beloved by millions--and won over even some southerners--while fueling lasting conflicts over the meaning of America. Although vilified over the years as often as praised, it has remained a cultural landmark, proliferating in the form of plays, songs, films, and merchandise--a rich legacy that has both fed and contested American racial stereotypes.

Author: David S. Reynolds
ISBN-10: 039308132X
ISBN-13: 9780393081329
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2011
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.40w x 1.16d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2011 pg. 94
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2011
Publishers Weekly 04/25/2011
Library Journal 01/01/2011 pg. 65
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2011 pg. 65
Booklist 05/15/2011 pg. 11
New York Times Book Review 06/26/2011 pg. 18
New York Times Book Review 07/03/2011 pg. 22
New York Review of Books 10/27/2011 pg. 67
Christian Century 10/18/2011 pg. 39
Choice 12/01/2011
Kirkus Best Books 12/01/2011 pg. 2207
New Yorker (The) 12/19/2011 pg. 139
Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg. 201