Intruders in Paradise (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Julian Lawrence Sanford
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1500 to the 1990’s
- Setting: The Americas
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Social action, North America or North Americans, Revolutionaries, Socialism, Social issues, Religion, Class consciousness, Immigration or emigration, South America or South Americans
- Locales: South America, North America
John Sanford published nearly two dozen books over a period of more than sixty years. Intruders in Paradise is his fifth volume in an ongoing meditation on American history, and it is social history in the best democratic tradition.
The book is broken up into seven sections of unequal length, each titled “Scenes of the National Life.” Each section begins with a half-dozen to a dozen miniature essays (never longer than a few paragraphs); the section then continues with five to ten longer prose portraits (each from two to ten pages): brief biographies, short prose...
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