Dawson's Fall
Title | Dawson's Fall PDF eBook |
Author | Roxana Robinson |
Publisher | Sarah Crichton Books |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2019-05-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374719756 |
A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoning In Dawson’s Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson’s tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelist’s narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new political, social, and moral landscape. Dawson, a man of fierce opinions, came to this country as a young Englishman to fight for the Confederacy in a war he understood as a conflict over states’ rights. He later became the editor of the Charleston News and Courier, finding a platform of real influence in the editorial column and emerging as a voice of the New South. With his wife and two children, he tried to lead a life that adhered to his staunch principles: equal rights, rule of law, and nonviolence, unswayed by the caprices of popular opinion. But he couldn’t control the political whims of his readers. As he wrangled diligently in his columns with questions of citizenship, equality, justice, and slavery, his newspaper rapidly lost readership, and he was plagued by financial worries. Nor could Dawson control the whims of the heart: his Swiss governess became embroiled in a tense affair with a drunkard doctor, which threatened to stain his family’s reputation. In the end, Dawson—a man in many ways representative of the country at this time—was felled by the very violence he vehemently opposed.
Dawson v. Falls Cty Boat Club, 125 MICH 433 (1900)
Title | Dawson v. Falls Cty Boat Club, 125 MICH 433 (1900) PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 280 |
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Sermons by the late Mr. William Dawson, of Barnbow, near Leeds. With a sketch of the author, by Mr. R. A. West
Title | Sermons by the late Mr. William Dawson, of Barnbow, near Leeds. With a sketch of the author, by Mr. R. A. West PDF eBook |
Author | William DAWSON (Wesleyan Minister.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 1860 |
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Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior
Title | Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior PDF eBook |
Author | New Mexico. Governor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 754 |
Release | 1903 |
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The Story of Lilly Dawson
Title | The Story of Lilly Dawson PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Crowe |
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Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 1852 |
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Soil Survey, Dawson County, Texas
Title | Soil Survey, Dawson County, Texas PDF eBook |
Author | Dupree Sanders |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 78 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Dawson County (Tex.) |
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Soil survey of Dawson County, Texas
Title | Soil survey of Dawson County, Texas PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 468 |
Release | 1960 |
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