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En 1861 estalló en Estados Unidos la Guerra de Secesión, que enfrentó a los estados del Sur, confederados, y los del Norte, unionistas. Tres años después, en 1864, tras quemar Atlanta, el general unionista Sherman inició su marcha hacia el mar. Un ejército de 60.000 soldados, seguidos por miles de esclavos negros liberados, atravesaron el estado de Georgia hasta las Carolinas. Junto a ellos, las damas sureñas que escapaban de las plantaciones ...

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The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new lifemarriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarshi...

The story of the Collyer brothers has become a legend for almost all New Yorkers. In the late 1940s, the police found the bodies of two brothers in their mansion on Fifth Avenue, buried under piles of things that had been collecting all their lives. Sons of good families, blindness of one of them had led to the other spent the rest of his life to look after him and slowly, the two had made their home their fortress. E.L. Doctorow looks at ever...