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Written with an investigative journalist's eye for detail and a novelist's flair, this biography of explorer, politician, and gold-mine owner John C. Fremont and his intellectual wife, Jessie Benton Fremont, also casts light on the tumultuous period that forms the backdrop for their lives, from the abolition of slavery to the building of the railroad.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Passion and Principle
• Subtitle: John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America
• Author: Sally Denton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496
• EAN: 9780803213685
• ISBN: 9780803213685
• ID: 01028436
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 658 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2009

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