{"product_id":"jacobs-ladder-a-story-of-virginia-during-the-war","title":"Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eJacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDonald McCaig\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780140282658\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2008\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e528\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eWidely acclaimed, with comparisons to Margaret Mitchell and Shelby Foote, Jacob's Ladder is a rich and poignant novel. It is the story of Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to the Gatewood Plantation in Virginia. Duncan falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who bears him a son, Jacob. Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off by his irate father to the Virginia Military Institute. As a cadet, Duncan guards the gallows of John Brown; as a man he will fight for Robert E. Lee and the South. Another Gatewood slave, Jesse -- whose love for Maggie is unrequited -escapes to freedom and enlists in Mr. Lincoln's army; in time he will confront his former masters.\u003cp\u003ePermeated with a wealth of scrupulously researched historical detail, McCaig conjures up the interlocked lives of masters and slaves so skillfully that he has gained praise from African American historians and the descendants of confederate veterans. Jacob's Ladder, lauded by the Virginia Quarterly as \"the best Civil War novel ever written, \" is an epic tale that resonates with all the bitter glory and deep human shame of America's greatest war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War | Donald McCaig | Paperback | 9780140282658 | Used: Good | Back Stacks E 1761234","offer_id":49229610713240,"sku":"1761234","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51gCn6nwvaL.jpg?v=1781220107","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/jacobs-ladder-a-story-of-virginia-during-the-war","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}