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Review 'Lively...[Brands] knows how to write in a popular style that draws us in and holds our interest...[He] also pauses to make some thought-provoking insights, which round out the narrative and present his subject in a fresh light...An engaging, eminently readable introduction.'?Wall Street Journal'An exciting new history of the American West and how it was settled, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush and more.'?New York Post '[Brands] has a deft narrative touch and a talent for highlighting the human drama undergirding historical events...History as adventure story.'?Los Angeles Review of Books '[A] fine new history.'?Houston Chronicle'Brands surveys the past three centuries of the West, chronicling all-too-human tales of hope, greed, triumph, tragedy, and irony. His history is propelled by the stories of amazing characters, some famous, others obscure...A marvelous short history of the West, rewarding both expert and neophyte readers.'?Booklist (starred review)'Brands is a master storyteller...[Dreams of El Dorado] will enthrall aficionados of 19th-century American history.'?Library Journal 'A lively, well-written survey full of novel observations on a region shrouded in legend.'?Kirkus'Brands argues convincingly that the reality of the American West was very different than the way it was mythologized...Lucid prose and short, tightly focused chapters...This broad but clearly structured study, with its many well-chosen illustrations, is likely to have wide appeal.'?Publishers Weekly'The expansion of the United States across what would become the American West is the sort of sprawling, tumultuous epic that is best told by a calm and concentrated mind. Fortunately the author of this book is H.W. Brands, who has the vision and supreme narrative skill to braid the chaotic tendrils that make up the past into a story that is almost as exciting for its coherence as it is for the heroic and heartbreaking events it so vividly renders. Dreams of El Dorado is the latest reason to think of Brands as America's go-to historian.'?Stephen Harrigan, author of Big Wonderful Thing and The Gates of the Alamo'A subject this monumental demands prose to match it, and I am pleased that to report that, in this sprawling epic, H. W. Brands is at his sparkling best. He is of the American West and grew up in its myths, which may explain why he writes about it with such passion and clarity.'?S. C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell Read more About the Author H. W. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times-bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class. He lives in Austin, Texas. Read more
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