Mordecai, an early American family

392 Pages·2003·11.3 MB·English

by  Bingham, Emily

MORDECAI
AN EARLY AMERICAN FAMILY
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Emily Bingham's evocative telling of one
American Jewish family's history is at the
forefront of a new way of exploring our past,
one that follows the course of national events
through the relationships that speakmost imme-
diately to us: those between parent and child,
sibling and sibling, husband and wife. In Bing-
ham's sure hands, the remarkable Mordecais talk
directly to us, and an unforgettable picture of
one family's struggle to succeed in earlyAmerica
emerges.
Few American families were caught so thor-
oughlyinthe roilofAmerica's earlyhistoryasthe
Mordecais. Over three generations, they wit-
nessed the Continental Congress convening in
Philadelphia, struggled to understand their faith
during the evangelical fervor ofthe Great Awak-
ening, joined patrols in the aftermath of Nat
Turner's revolt, participated in the free-love ex-
periments ofthe 1850s, and watched firsthand as
the Union Army razed Richmond. And through
—
it all they wrote letters, diaries, newspaper arti-
—
cles, books having made personal and familial
enlightenment through self-improvement their
anchor throughout the tumultuous decades.
Drawn from these rich archives, Mordecai is
a remarkable re-creation of one family's first
century in the United States. It gives this nation's
early history a uniquely personal face.
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MORDECAI

MORDECAI
AN EARLY AMERICAN FAMILY
EMILY BINGHAM
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Bingham,Emily.
Mordecai,anearlyAmericanfamilyIbyEmilyBingham.—1sted.
p. cm.
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ISBN0-8090-2756-9 (he:alk.—paper) — —
1.Mordecaifamily. 2. Jews Genealogy. 3. Jews UnitedStates
Genealogy. I. Title.
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