Publishers Weekly, September 9th, 2002
KEVIN BAKER. HarperCollins, $26.95 (688p) ISBN 0-06-019582-7
* In his second New York novel (after Dreamland), Baker takes a grisly event--the 1863 Civil War draft riots--and crafts a terrifying, human story bursting with all the calamity, brutality and power of the riots themselves, which may have been the worst civic disturbance in U.S. history. Baker, an American Heritage writer, bases his work largely on historic events--Lincoln's announcement of the draft law did in fact propel thousands of New Yorkers, mainly Irish, to burn and loot the city and murder hundreds of innocents. The book ...
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