Eagles Cry, David Nevin
Eagles Cry, David Nevin
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Eagle's Cry
A Novel of the Louisiana Purchase

Author: David Nevin

Narrator: Geoffrey Howard

Unabridged: 39 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2005


Synopsis

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte has gained control of New Orleans. As France forces the young nations hand economically and politically, the greatest minds and visionaries of a young America struggle to hold it all together.

About David Nevin

David Nevin spent his childhood on army bases. On his seventeenth birthday he joined the US Navy at the latter stages of World War II. Later, as a merchant marine, he spent seven years in the Pacific before he returned to the United States and became a journalist. He was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award. In addition to writing books on popular history for Time-Life, Nevin continues to write freelance. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Dream West, which became a seven-part miniseries.


Reviews

Goodreads review by KOMET on April 06, 2014

This is the second novel in David Nevin's series of historical novels spanning from the late 1790s to the eve of the Civil War. Like the previous novel in the series I read (i.e. "1812: A Novel"), "Eagle's Cry" represents, in the author's words, "the imagined inside of a known outside story." The no......more

Goodreads review by Maurita on July 03, 2023

This book turned out to be better than I thought although it still seemed a bit disjointed. I guess that is because the Author covered such a large & important Era leading up to the Survival of Democracy against both France & Britain. The Author admitted in the Afterword that Politics "back then' in......more

Goodreads review by Toby on November 17, 2018

Overall well-written and surely took a lot of research. One thing that bothered me was the way the names were all abbreviated, Thomas Jefferson is Tom, James Madison is Jimmy, Alexander Hamilton is Alex. Since it's a historical novel, saying Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton would've pulled me in more......more

Goodreads review by Tom on November 14, 2008

I had read this a few years ago and really enjooyed it. I found it in a used book store and am reading it again. It is one of my favorite historical novels, with Washington, Adams, Jefferson, J Q Adams, Jim and Dolley Madison, and Aaron Burr. I really enjoyed it and learned mote history at the samw......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 26, 2020

Historical fiction during Jefferson presidency - Democrats vs Federalists, Burr vs jefferson, countyr's fear of democrats, and French revolution influence, Louisiana Purchase, James Madison - Very informative but slow read......more