Robert Sullivan
Robert Sullivan is the author of Rats, The Meadowlands, A Whale Hunt, and most recently, The Thoreau You Don’t Know. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, A Public Space and Vogue, where he is a contributing editor. He was born in Manhattan and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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My American Revolution
- By: Robert Sullivan
- Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 25, 2012
- Language: English
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In My American Revolution, Robert Sullivan investigates the true history of the crossing of the Delaware, its down-home reenactment each year for the past half a century, and – toward the end of a personal odyssey that involves camping in New Jersey backyards, hiking through lost ‘mountains,’ and eventually some physical therapy – he evacuates illegally from Brooklyn to Manhattan by handmade boat. He recounts a Brooklyn historian’s failed attempt to memorialize a colonial Maryland regiment; a tattoo artist’s more successful use of a colonial submarine, which resulted in his 2007 arrest by the New York City police and the FBI; and last but not least, along New York harbor, Sullivan re-creates an ancient signal beacon.
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