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The audiobook is out! Order from Audible<\/a> or wherever you get your audiobooks. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The paperback is also out! Order at links below.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Lydia Maria Child<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Radical American Life<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lively, relevant story of one of America\u2019s most courageous abolitionists<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a biography on a mission. As Moland shows us, to discover Child is to discover ourselves, revealing the best and worst of who we are. . . . This is a brilliantly written book: stylish, witty, barbed yet sympathetic.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

— Laura Dassow Walls,
author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMoland\u2019s exuberant new biography gives us a Lydia Maria Child for the twenty-first century: a woman of fierce intelligence and astonishing ingenuity who never gave up the struggle to right the wrongs of enslavement and its legacy of race prejudice. Moland writes with a philosopher\u2019s instinct to question both herself and the evidence she uncovers, yielding an intimate portrait that is also a history of America\u2019s centuries-long reckoning with its founding principles.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life <\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“After the 2016 presidential election… Moland discovered Child, a woman, she later learned, ‘unwilling to accept the conventional wisdom of her time and unable to abide by its norms’…Moland began to wonder, ‘What could the example of her life teach me?'”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

–Brenda Wineapple, New York Review of Books<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“There are dozens of wonderful stories in this stew of a book, which covers Child\u2019s life and loves as well as the significant events of the era\u2014including abolition, women\u2019s rights, Native American rights, John Brown\u2019s failed uprising, the Civil War . . . Lydia Maria Child may or may not be \u201ctruly living\u201d in another world now, but in the pages of this book she is certainly alive, vibrant and inspiring.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

–Susan Cheever, The Nation<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Moland\u2019s book is the latest, the fullest, and by a noticeable margin the best biography of Lydia Maria Child . . . Readers will find this an affecting, emotional story, particularly as its major chapters draw to a close.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

–Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cLydia Maria Child was one of the few great intellectual freedom fighters in nineteenth-century America. Moland\u2019s magisterial book takes us in and through Child\u2019s rich world and life in an exemplary manner. Don\u2019t miss this powerful text on a giant still so relevant to our bleak times.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Cornel West, author of Race Matters<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Moland is . . . interested in [Child’s] many-splendored radicalism. . . [In Lydia Maria Child<\/em>], Moland has produced a call to arms, an almanac for activists, as well as an ample, honest and immensely readable book.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

–James Marcus, Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Moland is most charming at those moments when the staid scholarly facade of the historian splinters \u2014 when the fourth wall of biography crumbles \u2014 and the reader is invited to witness the author reacting to her discoveries in real time . . . [A] thoughtful, soulful work.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

–J. C. Hallman, Los Angeles Review of Books<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“[Lydia Maria Child was] a remarkable woman who needs to be remembered as one of the nineteenth century’s most influential Abolitionists . . . A work of exemplary scholarship, Moland’s definitive biography of Child is extremely well written and invites both an academic and general readership.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

–Booklist<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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