The Portugal Story - John dos Passos

By John dos Passos

Release Date: 1995-03-01

Genre: European History

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This selective history of Portugal reflects the author’s fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation’s rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author’s travels and archival research.

ā€œDos Passos,ā€ writes historian J. H. Plumb, ā€œbrings to his material a novelist’s acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he has produced one of the most readable books on the subject that I know.ā€

The Portugal Story - John dos Passos

By John dos Passos

Release Date: 1995-03-01

Genre: European History

(0 ratings)
This selective history of Portugal reflects the author’s fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation’s rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author’s travels and archival research.

ā€œDos Passos,ā€ writes historian J. H. Plumb, ā€œbrings to his material a novelist’s acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he has produced one of the most readable books on the subject that I know.ā€

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