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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2016) 389 pages $28.00 Hardcover, $9.99 Kindle.
Timothy Egan, the New York Times columnist, is one of the most accomplished nonfiction writers alive. He has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. His work has appeared in newspapers and magazines and he is the author of seven books. His three year old book, The Immortal Irishman, may be his finest work yet. I see it has popped up to the top of Amazon's chart for Best Selling Civil War book and I am guessing that will happen every March for a while.
Egan uses the life of Thomas Francis Meagher to tell the story of Irish immigration to the United States during the Civil War Era. Meagher was a revolutionist, a romantic liberal dreamer and poet, a heroic fugitive from the world’s most powerful empire, and a Union general in the Civil War. His life spanned three continents and his travels, compelled and compelling, covered thousands of miles in an age of slow moving sailing ships.
Note: This review will be posted in several installments.