{"product_id":"garibaldi-citizen-of-the-world-a-biography-9780691115405","title":"Garibaldi: Citizen of the World: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary  soldier  politician  and greatest figure in the fight for Italian unification  Garibaldi (1807-1882) brought off almost as many dramatic exploits in the Americas as he did in Europe  becoming an international freedom fighter  earning the title of the \"hero of two worlds \" and making himself perhaps the most famous and beloved man of his century. Alfonso Sciroccos Garibaldi is the most up-to-date  authoritative  comprehensive  and convincing biography of Garibaldi yet written. In vivid narrative style and unprecedented detail  and drawing on many new sources that shed fresh light on important events  Scirocco tells the full story of Garibaldis fascinating public and private life  separating its myth-like reality from the outright myths that have surrounded Garibaldi since his own day.  Scirocco tells how Garibaldi devoted his energies to the liberation of Italians and other oppressed peoples. Sentenced to death for his role in an abortive Genoese insurrection in 1834  Garibaldi fled to South America  where he joined two successive fights for independence--Rio Grande do Suls against Brazil and Uruguays against Argentina. He returned to Italy in 1848 to again fight for Italian independence  leading seven more campaigns  including the spectacular capture of Sicily. During the American Civil War  Abraham Lincoln even offered to make him a general in the Union army.  Presenting Garibaldi as a complex and even contradictory figure  Scirocco shows us the pacifist who spent much of his life fighting; the nationalist who advocated European unification; the republican who served a king; and the man who  although compared by contemporaries to Aeneas and Odysseus  refused honors and wealth and spent his last years as a farmer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45495908565045,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691115400","price":51.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691115405.jpg?v=1780903279","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/garibaldi-citizen-of-the-world-a-biography-9780691115405","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}