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Author | : William B. Catton |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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This is the tragic story of the North and South as they begin their long, heartbreaking march to Civil War. Using the early lives and careers of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis as theme and framework, these brilliant historians recreate this complex period of American history. The growth and development of both Lincoln and Davis is given, in parallel form, showing the moral and intellectual forces that shaped the two figures that became the war leaders in the next decade. The clash of opinions led to the clash of armies and in this incisive, psychological portrait of two idealists, America's story, in the decades before the Civil War, is told in engaging and eloquent prose. Book jacket.
Author | : William Catton |
Publisher | : Peter Smith Pub Incorporated |
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Release | : 1992 |
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ISBN | : 9780844664989 |
Author | : Peter Marshall |
Publisher | : Revell |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2009-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0800719441 |
Sounding Forth the Trumpet brings to life one of the most crucial epochs in America's history--the events leading up to and precipitating the Civil War. In this enlightening book, readers live through the Gold Rush, the Mexican War, the skirmishes of Bleeding Kansas, and the emergence of Abraham Lincoln, as well as the tragic issue of slavery.
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Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Erik Reece |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374710759 |
For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was still haunted by a sense that the world--or, more specifically, his country--could be better. He couldn't ignore his conviction that, in fact, the good ol' USA was in the midst of great social, environmental, and political crises--that for the first time in our history, we were being swept into a future that had no future. Where did we--here, in the land of Jeffersonian optimism and better tomorrows--go wrong? Rather than despair, Reece turned to those who had dared to imagine radically different futures for America. What followed was a giant road trip and research adventure through the sites of America's utopian communities, both historical and contemporary, known and unknown, successful and catastrophic. What he uncovered was not just a series of lost histories and broken visionaries but also a continuing and vital but hidden idealistic tradition in American intellectual history. Utopia Drive is an important and definitive reconstruction of that tradition. It is also, perhaps, a new framework to help us find a genuinely sustainable way forward. " ... an engaging exploration -- and example -- of the fruitful tunnel-visions of dreamers turned doers." - Publishers Weekly
Author | : Augustin Stucker |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 551 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1456794183 |
The story of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln is the story of the United States, and without either of their lives and influence we would not be the nation we are today. They were born within 9 months and 100 miles of each other in Kentucky log cabins. Their parallel lives from that point forward were eerily similar in spite of Davis remaining a life-long Southerner and Lincoln moving to and settling in Illinois. Each man had cold, emotionally distant fathers, both lost their first loves to disease within one month of each other, married strong Southern women much younger than themselves, and lost young sons while Presidents of the Union and the Confederacy. Both men were ambitious and drawn to the world of politics where Davis, an ardent slaveholder and state rights leader and Lincoln, seeking to limit and eradicate slavery, worked tirelessly to avoid Civil War up to the moment of Southern secession. Finally, Lincoln and Davis were each considered martyrs after leading their nations through the conclusion of the Civil War. This is their compelling story, including comparing the stark political events of their era to those being replayed across todays America. For more information about the book and/or the author please visit www.lincolnanddavis.com.
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Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Humanities |
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Author | : Army Library (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Steven L. Dundas |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2022-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1640124888 |
Steven L. Dundas tells the epic story of how religion and racial ideology influenced slavery, emancipation, reconstruction, Jim Crow, and today’s struggles for civil rights.
Author | : Stephen E. Ambrose |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2001-11-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780743203173 |
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.