Advance Notice from Library Journal
Date of Review:
Mar.12.2013
Published Work:
Source:
Library Journal
Schneider, Paul. Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History. Holt. Sept. 2013. 416p. ISBN 9780805091366. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780805098365. HISTORY
“Ol’ Man River” (as the immortal Kern/Hammerstein song calls it) has been rolling along for millennia, and Schneider (The Adirondacks) here starts with its geologic origins somewhere in the mists of time. From the Paleolithic tribes that sailed its waters 15,000 years ago, to French and Spanish exploration and Civil War battles, to its role today as the world’s busiest waterway, here’s the story of how the Mississippi has shaped America—and the world. Not just for heartlands readers.
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A biography so intimate it feels like an act of ventriloquism...Bonnie and Clyde takes off like a combustion engine, driving the narrative toward its gruesome climax. A cross between ballad and pulp fiction, the book is a close encounter with killers at play.”
—O, the Oprah Magazine
About Paul
Paul is the author, most recently, of Bonnie and Clyde: the Lives Behind the Legend, (Henry Holt, 2009), which the LA Times called "extraordinarily immediate," and O, the Oprah Magazine said "a biography so real it feels like an act of ventriloquism." ...
Causes Paul Schneider Supports
The usual suspects for a writer from Massachusetts, living on Martha's Vineyard no less.