A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Susanna Ashton, Hardcover Bryan Brown When Pons was faced with

When Pons was faced with the possibility of deportation

this book pulls back the curtain to reveal a powerful story of a life defined by politics and art--a man driven by equal parts brilliance and impulsiveness

Priest is a prince of the streets

The skilled and compassionate storyteller enjoyed widespread critical acclaim in the wake of his groundbreaking eponymous debut and continued to write and perform songs that became central to our American musical heritage for nearly five decades

applies his superior logic and problem solving skills to understand how the brain processes joy and sadness--and then he solves for happy

A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Susanna Ashton, Hardcover Bryan Brown When Pons was faced withThe remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson stayed for only one night, he made a lasting impression: drawing from this experience, Stowe began to write Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of the most influential books in American history and