Recollections Of The Life Of John Binns; Twenty-Nine Years In Europe And Fifty-Three In The United States

By John Binns and Vicar John Binns

Book Overview

From the streets and salons of late eighteenth century Europe to the restless politics of the early republic United States, John Binns writes with the immediacy of a man who lived the century turning. A life told across oceans. These Recollections stand as a vivid nineteenth century autobiography and an American political memoir shaped by exile, enterprise, and public controversy. Binns traces a transatlantic life story rooted in the Irish immigrant experience, moving through the worlds of journalism and printing history and into the civic life of his adopted country. Read as a complete unabridged memoir, it offers the texture of daily ambition and ideological struggle alongside the larger tides of revolution, reform, and nation-building. For readers of early American memoirs collections, it brings a distinctive working journalist's eye; for historians, it functions as a primary source history book with the candid strengths and quirks that make first-person testimony so valuable. It also carries the local weight of a Philadelphia historical biography, rich in names, networks, and moments that can reward careful browsing as a genealogy research resource. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Add it to a classic library for its voice and period detail, or open it simply for the momentum of a life that refuses to stay in one country, one trade, or one political moment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354507425
• ISBN13: 9789354507427
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"