The New Williamsburg Book Club

On Saturday, November 16, 2024, for our last meeting of the year we'll gather at 7 p.m. to discuss a NYT bestselling biography, David Crockett: The Lion of the West by Michael Wallis.

According to the description on Amazon.com: "Steeped in legend, shrouded in folklore, the real David Crockett, American frontiersman and cultural icon, finally emerges in this engrossing biography.
Popular culture transformed his memory into "Davy Crockett," and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. But best-selling historian Michael Wallis casts a fresh look at the frontiersman, storyteller, and politician behind these legendary stories. Born into a humble Tennessee family in 1786, Crockett never "killed him a b'ar" when he was only three. But he did cut a huge swath across early-nineteenth-century America―as a bear hunter, a frontier explorer, a soldier serving under Andrew Jackson, an unlikely congressman, and, finally, a martyr in his now-controversial death at the Alamo. Wallis's David Crockett is more than a riveting story. It is a revelatory, authoritative biography that separates fact from fiction, providing us with an extraordinary evocation of a true American hero and the rough-and-tumble times in which he lived."

We hope you'll enjoy reading this biography of an American from "the West"! Please join us that night to share some snacks, and good discussion, with friends and neighbors! Lisa