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 Gold R

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  Nathaniel PhilbrickAuthor
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Books

• The RushNathaniel Philbrick
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  In the Heart of the SeaThe Tragedy of the Whaleship EssexNathaniel PhilbrickBuy on Bookshop.org
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  MayflowerA Story of Courage, Community, and WarNathaniel PhilbrickBuy on Bookshop.org

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More by Nathaniel Philbrick

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  Travels with GeorgeNathaniel PhilbrickBuy on Bookshop.org
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  RushNathaniel PhilbrickBuy on Bookshop.org

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Providence Athenaeum

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