Justin Martin

Justin Martin is the author of three biographies, with Frederick Law Olmsted—landscape architect, abolitionist, journalist, Renaissance man—as his latest subject. Earlier efforts: a national bestseller on Fed chairman Alan Greenspan and a life of Ralph Nader that served as a primary source for An Unreasonable Man, an Academy Award-nominated documentary. Mr. Martin is a former staff writer at Fortune magazine. His articles have appeared in a variety of publications including Newsweek, Money, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Books Authored

Image of A Fierce Glory: Antietam--The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery
Author(s):
Justin Martin
Genre(s):
Civil War (U.S.), Civil Rights, Nonfiction

A Fierce Glory: Antietam—The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery

September 24, 2018
Reviewed by: 
Robert S. Davis

"A Fierce Glory offers spectacle over detail to the benefit of understanding."

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Image of A Fierce Glory: Antietam--The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery
Author(s):
Justin Martin
Genre(s):
Civil War (U.S.), Civil Rights, Nonfiction

A Fierce Glory: Antietam—The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery

September 10, 2018
Reviewed by: 
Thomas McClung

It has been asked before, regarding topics which have previously received considerable attention from the publishing world: Is it really necessary for another book on this subject?

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Image of Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
Author(s):
Justin Martin
Genre(s):
History of Literature

Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians

September 18, 2014
Reviewed by: 
Lew Whittington

“Martin’s historical scope and elegiac prose, laced through with exparlance of the period, is not only grandly entertaining to read, it rescues this bit of cultural history and gives Whitma

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Image of Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
Author(s):
Justin Martin
Genre(s):
Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

May 25, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Geri Spieler

“This biography is a comprehensive journal of Frederick Law Olmsted’s life written with great precision and exhaustive historical specifications; but these elements do not get in the way of

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