Meredith Mason Brown, author of the acclaimed Daniel Boone biography Frontiersman, tells American history through twenty objects passed down in his own family, from a Pequot stone axe head to a piece of Adolf Hitler’s shattered toilet bowl.
Along the way are a Kentucky rifle carried by Col. John Floyd, a letter from George Washington explaining his absence from the Constitutional Convention, and a pistol tied to the Battle of Shiloh, each artifact opening onto a larger chapter of the American story.
Published 2013
288 pages
$14.00