FROM THE PUBLISHER

Carl Sandburg's first novel, published when the poet-historian was seventy, Rememberance Rock follows the growth of the American dream through more than three centuries of our nation's history. The narrative stretches from the founding of Plymouth Colony through the Revolution and Civil War to World War II, and includes a cast of characters as vast as the landscape itself - Puritans and heretics, revolutionaries and Tory loyalists, abolitionists and slaveholders, even a Supreme Court Justice. Thematic unity to this sprawling epic surfaces in the symbolic reappearance of a bronze plaque that bears an inscription of Roger Bacon's "Four Stumbling Blocks to Truth," each of which is relevant to a particualr period of our past.