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| Title | : | A Hero Of Two Worlds |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (862 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1533298769 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 292 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
The story offers a rich portrait of life in Rome's American expatriot community, teeming with talented artists and louche flaneurs, intrigue and illicit affairs. He returns to Rome, where his life collapses as he spars with papal spies and French troops occupying the city. He surfaces in Rome as the republican drums are beating across Europe: Down with the monarchies, up with republican democracies. “A Hero of Two Worlds” is a book of sweeping historical fiction set in Rome in the early 1860s, when the great fight to transform Italy into a country was raging. He is in the streets when republicans chase Pope Pius IX out of the city. It traces the life of a young American sculptor named Rufus Trask from his arrival there in 1847 to his soldiering in the Union Army in the American Civil War sixteen years later. Trask becomes a hunted man and escapes to a remote mountain village, where he falls in love. It also plumbs Trask's double life as a carefree American devoted to his craft and a deadly fighter with republicans bent on ending authoritarian papal rule. He eventua
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He also wrote columns for The Wall Street Journal and The Boston Globe, where he was Foreign Editor as well. Sam Allis was a journalist for almost forty years, much of that time spent as a correspondent for Time magazine. His passionate interest in the American Civil War informs the last quarter of "A Hero of Two Worlds," when the story shifts from Ita
He also wrote columns for The Wall Street Journal and The Boston Globe, where he was Foreign Editor as well. About the Author Sam Allis was a journalist for almost forty years, much of that time spent as a correspondent for Time magazine. Allis lives in Boston with his wife Barbara. . His passionate interest in the American Civil War informs the last quarter of "A Hero of Two Worlds," when the story shifts from Italy to that conflict. Allis cemented his affection for the country during a year he spent in Perugia and Florence between school and college. He majored in modern Italian history at Harvard and was Time's Rome Bureau Chief during the mid-eighties. He fell in love with Italy when he was twelve, and has returned numerous times since then. He also did extensive research at the Massachusetts Historical Society on the Risorgimento, the nineteenth century republican movement
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