Daniel J. Sharfstein

“Extraordinary....” — Library Journal (starred review)

“No other book better brings to the fore the qualities of Chief Joseph or better explores the dilemma of his pursuer, Gen. O.O. Howard....a splendid book.” — Publishers Weekly

“Superb....Sharfstein’s story unfolds as a swift-moving narrative of tragic inevitability....of compelling interest to any student of 19th-century American history.” — Kirkus

“Magnificent and tragic....Sharfstein is a wonderful storyteller with a deep knowledge of all the relevant source material from the period. His narrative is rich with fascinating historical details.” — Nick Romeo, Christian Science Monitor

"An astonishingly detailed rendering of the variety and complexity of racial experience in an evolving national culture." 
–The New York Times Book Review

“An original and often startling look at the vagaries of the ‘color line.’ Sharfstein shows definitively that it was not a doctrinaire belief in racial purity that gave the South stability but rather a fluid understanding by its people and its institutions of racial difference and its multiple permutations.” 
-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

“Sharfstein brings his original research alive with a novelist’s eye for vivid detail and narrative. A groundbreaking work that will stir reflection and debate.” 
-Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club