The Alamo

by Michael Lind

Book Overview

Michael Lind, a New Yorker staff writer and author of the incendiary account of the resurgent American right in Up from Conservatism and The Next American Nation, where he introduced the much-praised... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395827582
• ISBN13: 9780395827581
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

First-rate, concrete, image-driven poetry.

The Alamo is a natural subject for an epic poem, though the form has fallen out of favor. Congratulations to Michael Lind, and to his publisher, for taking a chance on such an ambitious project. The poetry is first-rate, concrete, image-driven work that captures the flavor of the battle detail by detail. Laced with wit, and historically informed, I count this as the single best non-academic approach to the subject that I've seen.