{"product_id":"john-browns-body-9780929587264","title":"John Brown's Body","description":"One of the most widely read poems of our time, \u003ci\u003eJohn Brown's Body\u003c\/i\u003e is Stephen Vincent Benét's masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great energy and sweep, it swings into view the entire course of that terrible and decisive war, lighting up the lives of soldiers, leaders, and civilians, North and South, amidst the conflict. Generations of readers have found the book a compelling and moving experience. \u003cbr\u003e\"Magnificently readable.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\"It is not one of your tours de forces of intellect and technique, to be admired and then tucked away on the library shelf. It is a library of storytelling itself, a poem extraordinarily rich in action as well as actors, vivid, varied, and so expressive of many men and moods that prose could never have carried its electric burden.\"--\u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\"A remarkable piece of imaginative reporting; and one in which not only the forces which make history are embodied in the speech and action of very diverse men and women but the ideas also of which these forces were the driving power.\"--\u003ci\u003eLondon Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Vincent Benet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ivan R. Dee Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780929587264","brand":"Ivan R. Dee Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713289195657,"sku":"9780929587264","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_16c81e99-ede6-4554-b254-bb9292ff843e.jpg?v=1719608090","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/john-browns-body-9780929587264","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}