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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853 Hardcover – August 12, 2014

by Edward Dolnick (Author)

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A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.

In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves- for the first time ever-to imagine a future of ease and splendor. In THE RUSH, Edward Dolnick brilliantly recounts their treacherous westward journeys by wagon and on foot, and takes us to the frenzied gold fields and the rowdy cities that sprang from nothing to jam-packed chaos. With an enthralling cast of characters and scenes of unimaginable wealth and desperate ruin, THE RUSH is a fascinating-and rollicking-account of the greatest treasure hunt the world has ever seen.

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PRAISE FOR THE FORGER'S SPELL:
"A gripping historical narrative...Dolnick, a veteran science writer, knows his way around a canvas...The Forger's Spell has raised provocative questions about the nature of art and the psychology of deception."―Washington Post Book World

"Dolnick brilliantly re-creates the circumstances that made possible one of the most audacious frauds of the 20th century. And in doing so Dolnick plumbs the nature of fraud itself...an incomparable page turner."―Boston Globe

"[Dolnick] tells his story engagingly and with a light touch. He has a novelist's talent for characterization, and he raises fascinating questions."―New York Times Book Review

"The Forger's Spell is an excellent read, a swift and astute narrative written from many complex perspectives to great effect."―Chicago Sun-Times

"Pacing and prose as gripping as those of the best mystery novelist...The Forger's Spell is simply spellbinding."―Philadelphia Inquirer

"An engaging and highly amusing account of a clever craftsman. . . . On all those levels this is a delightful foray into art history and psychology"―St. Louis Post-Dispatch

About the Author

Edward Dolnick is the author of The Forger's Spell, Down the Great Unknown and the Edgar Award-winning The Rescue Artist. A former chief science writer at the Boston Globe, he has written for The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. There are over 130,000 copies of his books in print. He lives with his wife near Washington, D.C.

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Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1St Edition edition (August 12, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316175684
ISBN-13: 978-0316175685
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.8 inches
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Byrickon November 8, 2015

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If you are interested in the era, the California gold rush and its impact, you will want to read this book. The author does a great job of bringing the many phases of the rush to life through the words and experiences of actual participants, their motivations for joining it, their varied means of travel and experiences on the way as well as what became of them and what they thought of California once there. I have read many gold rush books and The Rush ranks among the very best.