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Look Away!
- A History of the Confederate States of America
- Narrado por: Michael Beck
- Duración: 23 h y 38 m
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- Duración: 11 h
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Today the United States is the world’s great superpower, and yet we also wrestle with the government Franklin and Washington created more than two centuries ago - the power of the executive branch, the principle of checks and balances, the electoral college - as well as the wounds of their compromise over slavery. Now, as the founding institutions appear under new stress, it is time to understand their origins through the fresh lens of Larson’s Franklin & Washington, a major addition to the literature of the founding era.
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Two together, written about at same time
- De fair & balanced en 03-28-21
De: Edward J. Larson
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Thaddeus Stevens
- Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
- De: Bruce Levine
- Narrado por: Landon Woodson
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for a second American revolution - a chance to remake the country as a genuine multiracial democracy. As one of the foremost abolitionists in Congress in the years leading up to the war, he was a leader of the young Republican Party’s radical wing, fighting for anti-slavery and anti-racist policies long before party colleagues like Abraham Lincoln endorsed them. These policies - including welcoming black men into the Union’s armies - would prove crucial to the Union war effort.
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Excellent bio of a political hero
- De Anonymous User en 03-11-21
De: Bruce Levine
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Fateful Lightning
- A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- De: Allen C. Guelzo
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 26 h y 19 m
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In Fateful Lightning, two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a marvelous portrait of the Civil War and its era, covering not only the major figures and epic battles, but also politics, religion, gender, race, diplomacy, and technology. He examines the strategy, the tactics, and the logistics of the Civil War and brings the most recent historical thinking to bear on emancipation, the presidency and the war powers, the blockade and international law, and the role of intellectuals, North and South.
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The worst part of this book is it's title
- De Rodney en 11-19-13
De: Allen C. Guelzo
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Black Reconstruction in America
- De: W. E. B. Du Bois, David Levering Lewis
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 37 h y 26 m
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This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America has justly been called a classic.
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The textbook you should have had in high school.
- De Saleh en 05-06-18
De: W. E. B. Du Bois, y otros
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Freedom National
- The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
- De: James Oakes
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 18 h y 53 m
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The consensus view of the Civil War - that it was first and foremost a war to restore the Union, and an antislavery war only later when it became necessary for Union victory - dies here. James Oakes’s groundbreaking history shows how deftly Lincoln and congressional Republicans pursued antislavery throughout the war, pragmatic in policy but steadfast on principle. In the disloyal South the federal government quickly began freeing slaves, immediately and without slaveholder compensation, as they fled to Union lines.
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An Excellent Book on an Important and little understood subject
- De AlKami en 12-22-22
De: James Oakes
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The Fall of the House of Dixie
- The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
- De: Bruce Levine
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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The J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois and associate editor of North and South magazine, Bruce Levine presents a gripping chronicle of the cultural and economic upheaval the South experienced during and after the Civil War. Drawing upon a treasure trove of diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and government documents, Levine offers a unique perspective on the old South's demise through the voices of those who lived through the conflict.
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Merely ok. . .
- De Steve E. en 03-19-13
De: Bruce Levine
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James Madison
- America's First Politician
- De: Jay Cost
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of political parties in the Federalist Papers and then helped to found the Republican Party just a few years later. This so-called Madison problem has occupied scholars for ages.
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Good listen
- De James Shannon en 06-27-22
De: Jay Cost
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1
- From Washington to Taft
- De: Larry Schweikart
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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Back by popular demand, the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guides provide an unvarnished, unapologetic overview of the topics every American needs to know. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1 profiles America’s early presidents, from George Washington to William Howard Taft.
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Ruining History to Own the Libs
- De Dee en 11-11-20
De: Larry Schweikart
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Reconstruction
- A Concise History
- De: Allen C. Guelzo
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South. Johnson's plan of Presidential Reconstruction, which was sympathetic to the former Confederacy, would ultimately lead to his impeachment and the institution of Radical Reconstruction.
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Very Well Done
- De Rob Welch en 08-20-21
De: Allen C. Guelzo
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America
- Penguin History of the United States, Book 1
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 21 h y 54 m
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In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from millennia past through the decades of Western colonization and conquest and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast.
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Excellent ..
- De aintbuyinit en 09-03-18
De: Alan Taylor
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American Heritage History of the United States
- De: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 23 h y 13 m
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Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States - a nation formed from a vast countryside on whose fringes 13 small British colonies fought for their freedom, then established a democratic nation that spanned the continent and went on to become a world power. This book will be treasured by anyone interested in the story of America.
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Highly recommended!
- De M. Hu en 08-04-17
De: Douglas Brinkley
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A Leap in the Dark
- The Struggle to Create the American Republic
- De: John Ferling
- Narrado por: Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
- Duración: 23 h y 50 m
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It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations.
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Loved every minute!
- De Richard en 03-03-15
De: John Ferling
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Decision in Philadelphia
- The Constitutional Convention of 1787
- De: James Collier, Christopher Collier
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. Decision in Philadelphia is the best popular history of the Constitutional Convention; in it, the life and times of 18th-century America not only come alive, but the very human qualities of the men who framed the document are brought provocatively into focus - casting many of the Founding Fathers in a new light.
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excellent book
- De Josh en 09-13-12
De: James Collier, y otros
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This book paints a vivid picture of Jefferson Davis as a multifaceted, often charismatic man who mirrored the turbulent times in which he lived and who stood solidly for the South that he loved. Ranging over the complete span of his long life, it shows him as a hardworking Mississippi planter, a compassionate slave owner, a hero of the Mexican War, and an able secretary of war under Franklin Pierce. But it is on the years of the Civil War and Davis’s controversial performance as president of the Confederacy that the book focuses.
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In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee’s defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of the Confederate army, and Grant’s victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans.
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History buff?
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Confederate Reckoning
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The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. Confederate Reckoning is the startling story of this epic political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy and the outcome of the Civil War.
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Good view of the confederate inner workings.
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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader
- The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause"
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Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans - including most history teachers - think the Confederate States seceded for "states' rights". The 150th anniversary of secession and Civil War provides a moment for all Americans to hear these documents, properly set in context by award-winning sociologist and historian James W. Loewen and coeditor Edward H. Sebesta to put in perspective the mythology of the Old South.
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a historical must read
- De Melodie Siefert Fontaine en 12-24-20
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The Rogue Republic
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This is the story of a young country testing its power on the global stage and a lost chapter in how the frontier spirit came to define American character. The first treatment of this little-known historical moment, The Rogue Republic shows how hardscrabble frontiersmen and gentleman farmers planted the seeds of civil war, marked the dawn of Manifest Destiny, and laid the groundwork for the American empire.
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Not necessary
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Lincoln's Men
- How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation
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No American president has enjoyed as intimate a relationship with the soldiers in his army as did the man they called “Father Abraham.” In Lincoln’s Men, historian William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries—the voices of the volunteers—to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president became “Father” throughout both the army and the North as a whole. Lincoln’s Men casts a new light on our most famous president and on America’s revolution—on our country’s father and its rebirth.
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Excellent book
- De Rj white en 01-31-24
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Jefferson Davis
- The Man and His Hour
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- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
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This book paints a vivid picture of Jefferson Davis as a multifaceted, often charismatic man who mirrored the turbulent times in which he lived and who stood solidly for the South that he loved. Ranging over the complete span of his long life, it shows him as a hardworking Mississippi planter, a compassionate slave owner, a hero of the Mexican War, and an able secretary of war under Franklin Pierce. But it is on the years of the Civil War and Davis’s controversial performance as president of the Confederacy that the book focuses.
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Could be more generous
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An Honorable Defeat
- The Last Days of the Confederate Government
- De: William C. Davis
- Narrado por: John Lescault
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In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee’s defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of the Confederate army, and Grant’s victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans.
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History buff?
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De: William C. Davis
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Confederate Reckoning
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The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. Confederate Reckoning is the startling story of this epic political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy and the outcome of the Civil War.
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Good view of the confederate inner workings.
- De Amazonian en 08-10-22
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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader
- The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause"
- De: James W. Loewen, Edward H. Sebesta
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 18 h y 15 m
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Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans - including most history teachers - think the Confederate States seceded for "states' rights". The 150th anniversary of secession and Civil War provides a moment for all Americans to hear these documents, properly set in context by award-winning sociologist and historian James W. Loewen and coeditor Edward H. Sebesta to put in perspective the mythology of the Old South.
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a historical must read
- De Melodie Siefert Fontaine en 12-24-20
De: James W. Loewen, y otros
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The Rogue Republic
- How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History
- De: William C. Davis
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
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This is the story of a young country testing its power on the global stage and a lost chapter in how the frontier spirit came to define American character. The first treatment of this little-known historical moment, The Rogue Republic shows how hardscrabble frontiersmen and gentleman farmers planted the seeds of civil war, marked the dawn of Manifest Destiny, and laid the groundwork for the American empire.
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Not necessary
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Lincoln's Men
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No American president has enjoyed as intimate a relationship with the soldiers in his army as did the man they called “Father Abraham.” In Lincoln’s Men, historian William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries—the voices of the volunteers—to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president became “Father” throughout both the army and the North as a whole. Lincoln’s Men casts a new light on our most famous president and on America’s revolution—on our country’s father and its rebirth.
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Excellent book
- De Rj white en 01-31-24
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The Approaching Fury
- Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861
- De: Stephen B. Oates
- Narrado por: David Colacci, Susan Ericksen, David Sadzin
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Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of 13 principal players in the drama, from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay in the Missouri crisis of 1820 down to Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and Abraham Lincoln in the final crisis of 1861. This innovative approach shows the crucial role that perception of events played in the sectional hostilities that pushed the United States irreversibly toward a national calamity.
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Straight From The Horse's Mouth
- De jamie21 en 08-18-21
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Armies of Deliverance
- A New History of the Civil War
- De: Elizabeth R. Varon
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 17 h y 41 m
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Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to the region. As the war escalated, Lincoln and his allies built the case that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit the North and South alike.
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A clear, comprehensive narrative unlike any other
- De Alice Conley en 04-10-23
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On to Petersburg
- Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
- De: Gordon C. Rhea
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
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On to Petersburg follows the Union army's movement to the James River, the military response from the Confederates, and the initial assault on Petersburg, which Rhea suggests marked the true end of the Overland Campaign. Beginning his account in the immediate aftermath of Grant's three-day attack on Confederate troops at Cold Harbor, Rhea argues that the Union general's primary goal was not - as often supposed - to take Richmond, but rather to destroy Lee's army by closing off its retreat routes and disrupting its supply chain.
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Important to understanding the Overland Campaign
- De Jimbo en 12-29-19
De: Gordon C. Rhea
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Sherman's March
- The First Full-Length Narrative of General William T. Sherman's Devastating March Through Georgia and the Carolinas
- De: Burke Davis
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h
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In November 1864, just days after the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln, General William T. Sherman vowed to "make Georgia howl." The hero of Shiloh and his 65,000 Federal troops destroyed the great city of Atlanta, captured Savannah, and cut a wide swath of destruction through Georgia and the Carolinas on their way to Virginia. A scorched-earth campaign that continues to haunt the Southern imagination, Sherman's "March to the Sea" and ensuing drive north was a crucial turning point in the War between the States.
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This is fiction, not history.
- De Anonymous User en 11-25-19
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1932
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- De: David Pietrusza
- Narrado por: David Stifel
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Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president - ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished "Wonder Boy" Herbert Hoover. Decadent, divided Weimar Germany faced two rounds of bloody Reichstag elections and two presidential contests - doddering reactionary Paul von Hindenburg against rising radical hate-monger Adolf Hitler.
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What a waste of time
- De Pam Sullivan en 07-06-19
De: David Pietrusza
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"Lee Is Trapped, and Must Be Taken"
- Eleven Fateful Days After Gettysburg: July 4 - 14, 1863
- De: Thomas J. Ryan, Richard R. Schaus
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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"Lee Is Trapped, and Must Be Taken": Eleven Fateful Days After Gettysburg: July 4 to July 14, 1863 focuses on the immediate aftermath of the battle of Gettysburg and addresses how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac in response to President Abraham Lincoln's mandate to bring about the "literal or substantial destruction" of Gen. Robert E. Lee's retreating Army of Northern Virginia.
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Detailed and Well Written
- De Ezekiel Z. Conover en 04-22-21
De: Thomas J. Ryan, y otros
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Conquered
- Why the Army of Tennessee Failed
- De: Larry J. Daniel
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
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Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But under the principal leadership of generals such as Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, and John Bell Hood, it won few major battles, and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances into the Confederate heartland as a matter of failed leadership.
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Alas, alas
- De Charles en 08-07-20
De: Larry J. Daniel
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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 1
- De: Jefferson Davis
- Narrado por: John Riddle
- Duración: 24 h y 16 m
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Former Confederate President Jefferson Davis penned "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" in 1881, offering a historical perspective and justification for the Confederacy's formation and actions during the Civil War. While serving as a valuable primary source for understanding Confederate leadership's motivations, the work is also recognized for its biased defense of the Confederacy and its "Lost Cause" narrative.
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The Union War
- De: Gary W. Gallagher
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Even 150 years later, we are haunted by the Civil War---by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary W. Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment.
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Non-revisionist
- De Chiefkent en 07-19-12
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The Battle of Gettysburg
- American Heritage Series
- De: Bruce Catton
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 3 h y 4 m
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From the opening shots to General George Pickett's ill-fated charge, Bruce Catton tells the dramatic story of the battle that resulted in more than 51,000 Union and Confederate casualties and changed the course of the war.
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A very good, short narrative
- De Carl E. Koller Lucio en 02-23-18
De: Bruce Catton
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For Cause and Comrades
- Why Men Fought in the Civil War
- De: James M. McPherson
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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James McPherson shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict. Motivated by duty and honor, and often by religious faith, these men wrote frequently of their firm belief in the cause for which they fought: the principles of liberty, freedom, justice, and patriotism. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war.
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Ambitious idea but falls short
- De Matt M en 08-03-20
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The First Congress
- How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
- De: Fergus M. Bordewich
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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The First Congress was the most important in US history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed - as many at the time feared it would - it's possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today.
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Compelling
- De Jean en 03-05-18
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Look Away!
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Fantastic And Insightful
we often hear of the battles of the Civil War and of the struggles of the Lincoln government, but never do we hear of the struggles of the Confederate government or the domestic affairs of that regime. William Davis brings that hitherto hidden world to light in a masteful portrayal and is a must read for anyone who wants a complete understanding of this war that we are still recovering from.
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- mona berrier
- 11-22-22
Best in Class
A thorough and comprehensive history of what has been bypassed and overlooked in civil war history. This book gives an extensive story of the southern cultural, historical and political events that were involved with the war.
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- Marc Robins
- 09-24-23
No Moonlight And Magnolias Here...
While there are subtle hints at Southern romanticism and sentimentality, they are not enough to render this work overtly hostile or sickeningly apologetic. This book does a good job at highlighting the notion that the Confederacy, - like most governments before and since its demise, - was run mostly by selfish autocrats, blowhard ideologs, well-connected charlatans, social climbers and a few misguided fools. Thus, the very destruction they accused the Union of concocting slowly they brought upon themselves swiftly by leaving it.
The book has a good rhythm and pace to it. It doesn't get bogged down with useless information. The narration was decent (some of the accents are hilarious, but effective). I was ready to hate this book but was pleasantly surprised!
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- Youth in Asia
- 08-23-23
Just Outstanding
The half of Civil War history that’s seldom told, this book is sorely needed. The first chapter covers the initial formation of the Confederate government and, from there, I had expected a more or less chronological narrative of Confederate political history. But the book actually turned out to be a collection of topical essays that work together to present a multifaceted picture of the evolution of life in the Confederacy, as well as a glimpse into Southern White mindset that evolved throughout the war and its immediate aftermath.
I initially found the narrator to be irritating, but as the book progressed, I warmed to his voice and his sometimes comical variety of Southern accents.
Altogether highly recommended.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-15-23
Couldn’t finish it..Don’t waste your credits.
The narrator is just terrible. His mimicking was so distracting, I had to stop listening. I have listened to more than 200 books on audible, this was by far the worst narrated book I have come across.
I can’t really comment about the story, because the narrator’s “voices” and exaggerated Souther accent made following the story nearly impossible.
The narration comes across as just silly. You would think publishers would choose their narrators more carefully.
N terms of the story, from what little I could get from the narration, it is just more “lost cause” fiction. Most disappointing audio book I have ever purchased.
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- Ira S. Saposnik
- 12-13-23
Nothing. It’s boring and poorly done
It’s bad. I’ve read Davis books before. We’re excellent. I’d look away from this one. It’s not very good. Narrator Is even worse. A balin potato would be better
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- Anonymous User
- 08-28-23
Not even close
The author bounced all over the place. Took to many liberties on facts and stated many things that were completely untrue
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