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| Title | : | Liberty and Union |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01BD0GO4Q |
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| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
Donald is a rarity among American historical biographers, being not merely a man of irreproachable scholarship and balance but an interesting writer.” —The New Yorker“Donald writes with lucidity and elegance.” —James M. McPherson“Few books can be recommended wholeheartedly to the specialist and the general reader alike. “Donald’s mastery of United States history throughout the nineteenth century, combined with his creative and original perspectives, has produced a work which is not only enlightening and interesting, but important as well.” —New England QuarterlyPraise for David Herbert Donald“Mr. Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War can.&rdqu
Riveting, illuminating, and provocative, Liberty and Union sheds a brilliant light on a half-century of US history and addresses a perennial problem of democratic societies all over the world: how to reconcile majority rule and minority rights.. With the same wit, eloquence, and willingness to question received wisdom that define his acclaimed biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Sumner, Donald suggests that it was the commonalities between North and South—and not their differences—that led to the earth-shattering conflict that was the Civil War and defined the chaotic years that followed. Exploring the political, social, and economic impact of the war, emancipation, Reconstruction, and westward expansion, Donald combines history and philosophy, offering a bold and thought-provoking analysis that goes far in explaining the nation we live in today. A comprehensive analysis of the crisis of popular government during the Civil War a
THE UNITED STATES IS For better or worst, and I think for the better, the bloody American Civil War of 1861-65 was a key turning point in the creation of a unitary American state. The successful completion of the twin tasks of eliminating slavery and the creation of a transcontinental state based on a single capitalist economy, a common com
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