Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 - Rilegato

McDougall, Walter A.

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ISBN 10: 0060567511 ISBN 13: 9780060567514

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2008

Riassunto

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's second installment of a series that began with Freedom Just Around the Corner offers new perspectives on such topics as the 1835 fire that consumed lower Manhattan, the Reconstruction, and the corrupt presidential campaign of 1876.

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Recensione:

“A broad-ranging portrait of America in a time of torment. . . . McDougall ventures that in the Civil War era something of the nation’s essential nature came through: progressive yet conservative, pious yet sanguinary. Provocative and richly detailed--a welcome contribution to popular history.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))

“History buffs will defnitely gravitate to this thick book. The second in a projected multivolume history of the U.S., it proves as boisterous as the busy, mid-nineteenth-century Americans whose expanding, industrializing, and warring McDougall chronicles. . . . A provocative survey frmo a premier historian.” (Booklist (starred review))

L'autore:

A professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, Walter A. McDougall is the author of many books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heavens and the Earth and Let the Sea Make a Noise. . . . He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage children.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0060567511
• ISBN 13: 9780060567514
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 787