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Descirption: Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.
On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young travel writer to explore the South, which was alien territory to the Connecticut Yankee correspondent and to his Northern readers. Identified in the paper as "Yeoman," to protect his identity, the writer roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, jolting the nation with his dispatches about slavery and the extremism of its defenders.
This extraordinary journey would also re-shape the nation's landscape, driving "Yeoman"-real name Frederick Law Olmsted-to embark on his career as America's first and foremost architect of urban parks and other public spaces.
Over a century and half later, there are echoes of the pre-Civil War in the angry ferment and fracturing of...
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