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Highlights
- In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution.
- Author(s): Alfred F Young
- 432 Pages
- History, United States
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Book Synopsis
In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution. Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans' benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.Review Quotes
"Young has recovered [Sampson's] life and given us a portrait of a woman with 'an extraordinary capacity for taking risks.'" --The Washington Post
"An excellent narrative. . . . Young is especially adept at explaining how Sampson pulled off her masquerade." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Young's most daring book. . . . Young finds in [Sampson's] sensational story an illumination of the norms that she struggled against by making herself extraordinary." --The New Republic
"Engaging...it is a delight to follow Young's unraveling of Sampson's masquerade." --The Boston Globe
Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.32 Inches (W) x .88 Inches (D)
Weight: .87 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 432
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: Alfred F Young
Language: English
Street Date: March 8, 2005
TCIN: 1003739402
UPC: 9780679761853
Item Number (DPCI): 247-12-8645
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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