John James Audubon: The Making of an American

Description: From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rhodes comes the first major biography of John James Audubon in 40 years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world.

Review Quotes: "Rhodes has managed to do for Audubon what Audubon did for birds. . . in this splendid biography Rhodes has produced nothing less than a portrait of the United States in its formative years."
-The New York Times Book Review

"Panoramic yet intensely detailed. . . .[Rhodes] has conveyed the thrust of his subject's imagination and the force of his movement as if painting Audubon from life."
- San Francisco Chronicle

"Rhodes has given us the most three-dimensional portrait yet of Audubon the man."
--The Washington Post Book World

"More than a mere biography: it is a comprehensive history of a man and his era. . . . Rhodes breathes life again into the world in which Audubon lived."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review