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The Civil War Awakening
Knopf
April 2011
On Sale: April 5, 2011
460 pages
ISBN: 1400040159
EAN: 9781400040155
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As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our
defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and
original account of how the Civil War began. 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the
battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American
revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to reject
their parents’ faith in compromise and appeasement, to do
the unthinkable in the name of an ideal. It set Abraham
Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on
the road to freedom. The book introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of
Civil War heroes—among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an
explorer’s wife, an idealistic band of German immigrants, a
regiment of New York City firemen, a community of Virginia
slaves, and a young college professor who would one day
become president. Adam Goodheart takes us from the corridors
of the White House to the slums of Manhattan, from the mouth
of the Chesapeake to the deserts of Nevada, from Boston
Common to Alcatraz Island, vividly evoking the Union at this
moment of ultimate crisis and decision.
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