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Daniel J Sharfstein
Author of Thunder in the Mountains
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“One of the epic tales of American history, rendered by a master storyteller. Daniel Sharfstein breathes new life into the fascinating figures at the heart of the Nez Perce War.”
—Karl Jacoby, author of The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”
—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
“Daniel Sharfstein offers a searing account of an American tragedy: how Oliver Otis Howard, a champion for the rights of freed slaves, became an architect of the dispossession and subjugation of Native people.”
—Ari Kelman, author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek
“Revelatory and riveting.”
—Gregory P. Downs, University of California–Davis, author of After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
The Invisible Line
“An astonishingly detailed rendering of the variety and complexity of racial experience in an evolving national culture.”
—The New York Times Book Review
—The New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Daniel J. Sharfstein is a professor of law and history and co-directs the George Barrett Social Justice Program at Vanderbilt University. He is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, and his first book, The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America, won numerous prizes, including the J. Anthony Lukas Prize for narrative nonfiction. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.