| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America. By John McKivigan. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xx, 291 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4673-3.)

In this first modern study of the outspoken abolitionist and journalist James Redpath, John McKivigan resurrects the reputation of a well-traveled agitator who faded from public memory after he died in 1898. It is no easy task: the mercurial Redpath left no manuscript collection and flitted from enthusiasm to enthusiasm. McKivigan has heroically ferreted out scattered letters and newspaper articles as well as details about Redpath's disorganized personal life. The result is a careful and fluidly written chronicle that sets Redpath's varied and controversial activities in their historical context.

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