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Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
Harper
August 2013
On Sale: August 6, 2013
740 pages
ISBN: 0061234575
EAN: 9780061234576
Kindle: B00AV6HXB2
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Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one
of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's
past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new
freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral
wrong: slavery.
With a canvas of extraordinary
characters, such as P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Frederick
Douglass, and L. C. Q. Lamar, Ecstatic Nation
brilliantly balances cultural and political history: It's a
riveting account of the sectional conflict that preceded the
Civil War, and it astutely chronicles the complex aftermath
of that war and Reconstruction, including the promise that
women would share in a new definition of American
citizenship. It takes us from photographic surveys of the
Sierra Nevadas to the discovery of gold in the South Dakota
hills, and it signals the painful, thrilling birth of modern
America. An epic tale by award-winning author Brenda
Wineapple, Ecstatic Nation lyrically and with true
originality captures the optimism, the failures, and the
tragic exuberance of a renewed Republic.
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