EX LIBRIS: Nathaniel Philbrick on The Rush

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National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick , author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower , reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States—and lit the long fuse to civil war. In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter’s Mill in California—triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history and jolting a fragile republic already sliding toward crisis. In The Rush , Philbrick transforms the

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Providence Athenaeum

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