Heyday

gold rush!

Great novel with fine period details and an exciting plot! Fascinating characters set amid a world in turmoil in 1848. Read about a young america still finding it's place in the world and dealing with a controversial war.

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Just Wonderful!

I don't know what it was about this book that made me pick it up in the first place, but I am certainly glad that I did. I would easily say that's it belongs in my top ten favorite books of all time. The characters where wonderful, the plot is thrilling, and the setting in unlike any book I've read before. Bravo!

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Great!

Heyday by Kurt Andersen is an outstanding book. Bored aristocrat Benjamin Knowles leaves his home in England to travel to the United States after his involment in the revolutions that are sweeping France in 1848. In New York City Knowles befriends Timothy Skaggs a cynical daguerreotypist, Duff Lucking a damaged Mexican-American war vetern, and Duff's sister Polly a acctress and part time prositute. The four decide to leave New York and travel west, ending up in gold rush California all the while being followed by a lunatic assian bent on reveange. Andersen's prose makes you feel like you are really in 1848, his period detail is increadble.

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Read if you like ny history

I enjoyed the many characters found in the book around the 1840s.

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