John sedgwick author wikipedia

John Sedgwick is an American historian best known for his best-selling family memoir, In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family and his acclaimed co-biography, War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, which won the Society of Cincinnati Prize and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize, both given for the year’s best book on the Founders.

The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik declared that his latest book, From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War that Made the West, “demands a big-screen treatment.” His previous, Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation is in development with Cynthia Sikes Yorkin Productions for a limited cable television series; an early work, The Peaceable Kingdom, on the Philadelphia Zoo was the basis of a dramatic television series on CBS.

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