REMEMBRANCE ROCK

by Carl Sandburg ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 7, 1948

**A book that rewards one for the desert of inadequate books in recent months- the book one could hope might come from a wise and understanding and tolerant man. It's a book that achieves what many have tried to do- and failed in doing; it compasses the American Dream in its scope, its imagination, its drama, its greatness and littleness. The book has an epic quality. Set in a frame of today- with prologue and epilogue dealing with veterans of World War II facing the challenge of the violent end of war, its meaning for the unknown future, its inheritance from the bitter past-- and within the frame, the novel in three parts, left as a heritage by a wise judge to his grandson. Through the pages of his novel one lives again three vital periods of America's history:- (a) 17th century England and the pilgrim saga, the early years in the New World, the break with tradition made by Roger Williams; (b) the march of events leading up to and culminating in the American Revolution- the birth of liberty; (c) the westward journeyings and the Civil War dividing households and communities. The people live- they stand for what America is. The book is written as only Sandburg could write it. It is the book of a poet, an historian, a biographer, a storyteller.

Pub Date: Oct. 7, 1948

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1948

Categories: FICTION