
The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection of autobiographies--including those of Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglas, Mark Twain, and more... A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682), perhaps...

The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection. "A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" (1682), perhaps the first American bestseller, recounts this thirty-nine-year-old woman s harrowing months as...
