Throne of Grace, Tom Clavin
Throne of Grace, Tom Clavin
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Throne of Grace
A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West

Author: Tom Clavin, Bob Drury

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2024


Synopsis

"As soon as listeners hear Johnny Heller's easy Western drawl, they'll know they're in for a story about the Old West."—AudioFile

The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.

It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus was the birth of Manifest Destiny and the resulting bloody battles with Indigenous tribes encountered by white explorers. Also in this volatile mix are the grizzled fur trappers and mountain men, waging war against the Native American tribes whose lands they traverse.

This is the setting of Throne of Grace, and the guide to this epic narrative is arguably America’s greatest yet most unsung pathfinder, Jedediah Smith. His explorations into the forested frontiers on both sides of the Rocky Mountains and all the way to the West Coast would become the stuff of legend. Thanks to painstaking research and riveting writing, the story of the making of modern America is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and memorable men and women, settlers and Indigenous, who witnessed it. But it's Smith who drives the narrative with his trailblazing path through the unexplored terrain of the American West.

Throne of Grace is a gripping yarn that drops the reader into the center of an underreported era and introduces one of the great explorers in American history.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

About Tom Clavin

TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include the bestselling Frontier Lawmen trilogy—Wild Bill, Dodge City, and Tombstone—and Blood and Treasure, The Last Hill, and Throne of Grace with Bob Drury. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.

About Bob Drury

BOB DRURY, the recipient of several national journalism awards, is a three-time National Magazine Award finalist as well as a Pulitzer Prize nominee. Drury honed his investigative skills writing for all four New York City newspapers as well as a variety of national publications. His journalism career has arced from sports to crime to adventure travel to foreign correspondence. He is also the author, co-author, or editor of more than ten non-fiction books, including Blood and Treasure, Valley Forge, and Lucky 666.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brendan on May 06, 2024

Up until now, every book I have read by Tom Clavin and Bob Drury has received my hearty approval. That streak will not end with Throne of Grace. Drury and Clavin have mastered the ability to make a history book sound like a story you hear from a long lost friend at the bar. There is a ton of charact......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on May 02, 2024

I enjoyed the book right from the beginning, but there were a few areas in the first third that really bored me. It might be simply a personal preference, but there were a few sections that I would have cut or at least pared back if I were the editor of this book. Some of the details of the first pa......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on June 16, 2024

I’ve always been fascinated by stories of the opening of the West, and all the trials and tribulations the Explorers and Mountain Men dealt with on their journeys. An amazing book about an amazing Mountain Man!......more

Goodreads review by DeWayne on October 09, 2024

With the birth of Manifest Destiny, the ever-expanding move to the West created conflict with the Natives as both searched for animals of survival, one for food and the other for fur and wealth. Jed Smith is the main character of these authors as he wanders in all the small rivers of the Rockies plu......more

Goodreads review by Scott on August 05, 2024

One of the best 'history comes to life' books I've ever read. The writing is perfectly engaging, with little cliff hangers at the end of sections or chapters. I loved having to look up vocabulary words I've heard or not heard previously. And maps. Looked at lots of maps as I read through this book t......more


Quotes

Praise for Throne of Grace and Bob Drury and Tom Clavin:

"A lively account of the remarkable life of one of the men who led the U.S. into the vast West." —Kirkus (starred review) on Throne of Grace

"With its muscular prose and expert storytelling, The Last Hill deserves to stand beside Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers as one of the truly epic—and intimate—accounts of American heroism and sacrifice in World War II. " —Wall Street Journal

"In this exhaustive history ... Drury and Clavin pack the narrative with biographical details about the Rangers and skillfully toggle between battle scenes and big-picture analysis. WWII buffs will savor this deep dive." —Publishers Weekly on The Last Hill

“Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, challenge conventional wisdom about an American origin story and, in the process, weave a tale fit for the big screen.” —Washington Free Beacon on Blood and Treasure

“Bob Drury and Tom Clavin together have given us a half-dozen elegantly written narratives of exhilarating episodes in American history. [Blood and Treasure] may be the authors’ finest work to date. Redolent of time and place, a raw and rugged tale.” —Wall Street Journal