The Banished Children of Eve : A Novel of Civil War New York

from YossarianXeno

Written with an impressive understanding of the culture and history, this novel charts the tensions between New York's Irish, Protestant and Black communities in the run up to the Draft Riots in the city during the US Civil War, when conscripts for the Union Army were first selected by lot. But i...

from Norwine

A compelling and carefully researched novel set in the turbulent days leading up to the American Civil War. Quinn captures the oppression caused by poverty, crime, anti-immigrant and racist attitudes which erupted into chaos in the city of New York. You think New York City is a tough place now? I...

from Norwine

A compelling and carefully researched novel set in the turbulent days leading up to the American Civil War. Quinn captures the oppression caused by poverty, crime, anti-immigrant and racist attitudes which erupted into chaos in the city of New York. You think New York City is a tough place now? I...