Author: MERRILL, BOYNTON
Title: Jefferson's Nephews a Frontier Tragedy
Description: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. First Edition (?). Hardcover. Ex-Libris; Maps; 9.30 X 6.30 X 1.40 inches; xv, 462 pages; Hard cover is grey cloth with white lettering on spine. Light rubbing, scuffing, bumping to boards. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Pages are clean and tight, as if unused. Illustrated with 4 b/w maps and 4 figures. DJ has rubbing, scuffing, bumping, sunning, some closed tears. "Jefferson’s Nephews is superb. Mr. Merrill’s book is horridly fascinating, as absorbing, as gruesome, and as intelligent as Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood." —The New York Times Book Review. "One must be grateful to Boynton Merrill for having rescued this grim footnote to history from oblivion and for having guided us so well through all the twists of a very tangled tale. Cecil B. De Mille! Thou shouldst be living at this hour." —Times Literary Supplement (London). "Celebrated in abolitionist literature . This grisly story has finally been researched with sensitivity and in scholarly detail." —American Historical Review.. Very Good+ .

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