Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America

by David S. Reynolds

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039308132X
• ISBN13: 9780393081329
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"