Freedom National
The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
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James Oakes
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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.
In the loyal Border States the Republicans tried coaxing officials into abolishing slavery gradually with promises of compensation. As the devastating war continued with slavery still entrenched, Republicans embraced a more aggressive military emancipation, triggered by the Emancipation Proclamation. Finally it took a constitutional amendment on abolition to achieve the Union’s primary goal in the war. Here, in a magisterial history, are the intertwined stories of emancipation and the Civil War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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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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The War That Forged a Nation
- Why the Civil War Still Matters
- De: James McPherson
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why the Civil War remains so deeply embedded in our national psyche and identity. The drama and tragedy of the war help explain why the Civil War remains a topic of interest. But the legacy of the war extends far beyond historical interest or scholarly attention.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Different Kind of History from McPherson
- De Carole T. en 08-11-16
De: James McPherson
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The Three Lives of James Madison
- Genius, Partisan, President
- De: Noah Feldman
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 34 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its adoption and ratification, then drafted the Bill of Rights. As an older, cannier politician, he cofounded the original Republican party, setting the course of American political partisanship. Finally, having pioneered a foreign policy based on economic sanctions, he took the United States into a high-risk conflict, becoming the first wartime president and, despite the odds, winning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cogently organized, meticulously balanced
- De Diana Black Kennedy en 06-15-18
De: Noah Feldman
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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
- Versión completa
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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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3 out of 5 stars
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Merely ok. . .
- De Steve E. en 03-19-13
De: Bruce Levine
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James Madison and the Making of America
- De: Kevin R. C. Gutzman
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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In James Madison and the Making of America, historian Kevin Gutzman looks beyond the way James Madison is traditionally seen - as "The Father of the Constitution” - to find a more complex and sometimes contradictory portrait of this influential Founding Father and the ways in which he influenced the spirit of today's United States.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a traditional biography
- De David en 12-14-12
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America's Great Debate
- Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise that Preserved the Union
- De: Fergus M. Bordewich
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 17 h y 21 m
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The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, among them California and the present-day Southwest. When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers petitioned for admission to the Union. But the U.S. Senate was precariously balanced with 15 free states and 15 slave states. Up to this point, states had been admitted in pairs, one free and one slave, to preserve that tenuous balance in the Senate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent. Very detailed. Entertaining.
- De Douglas en 03-03-18
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The Crooked Path to Abolition
- Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
- De: James Oakes
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln's antislavery strategies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lincoln’s Transformation
- De A View from Greensboro en 12-04-22
De: James Oakes
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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
- Versión completa
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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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1 out of 5 stars
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Ruining History to Own the Libs
- De Dee en 11-11-20
De: Larry Schweikart
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President Lincoln
- The Duty of a Statesman
- De: William Lee Miller
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world. And back in the 19th century, a great man held that office. William Lee Miller's new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.
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2 out of 5 stars
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An analysis of Lincoln's life, not a history
- De D. Rairigh en 05-24-09
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers
- De: Brion McClanahan Ph. D.
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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Here to rescue the reputations of our Founding Fathers from the plague of modern political correctness is The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers. Author and Professor Brion McClanahan shows how patriots like Franklin, Madison, and Hamilton laid the foundations of American civil liberty and had a better understanding of the problems facing us today than our current Congress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly Recommended
- De Colleen H. en 08-13-09
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Well Done
- De Rob Welch en 08-20-21
De: Allen C. Guelzo
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A Short History of the United States
- De: Robert V. Remini
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión resumida
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In addition, Remini explains the reasons for the nation's unique and enduring strengths, its artistic and cultural accomplishments, its genius in developing new products to sell to the world, and its abiding commitment to individual freedoms.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very thorough, easy listen, heavy on US Presidents
- De Craig en 01-02-09
De: Robert V. Remini
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Ratification
- The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
- De: Pauline Maier
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 23 h y 5 m
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When the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia adjourned late in the summer of 1787, the delegates returned to their states to report on the new Constitution, which had to be ratified by specially elected conventions in at least nine states. Pauline Maier recounts the dramatic events of the ensuing debate in homes, taverns, and convention halls, drawing generously on the speeches and letters of founding fathers, both familiar and forgotten, on all sides.
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4 out of 5 stars
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History Always Repeats
- De Howard en 08-27-11
De: Pauline Maier
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent bio of a political hero
- De Anonymous User en 03-11-21
De: Bruce Levine
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Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner's Lincoln emerges as a leader, one whose greatness lies in his capacity for moral and political growth through real engagement with allies and critics alike. This powerful work will transform our understanding of the nation's greatest president and the issue that mattered most.
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Freedom National
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An Excellent Book on an Important and little understood subject
Excellent book on a subject that we know so little about. Indeed, it is a subject that we don’t even know that we don’t know. I have read many of James Oakes books and have found his scholarship on the antislavery movement inspiring. This is the culmination of that scholarship. I highly recommend.
I would only add that the narrator was quite good. He clearly and powerfully brings the text to life. Many thanks.
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- 07-22-20
Very thorough and enlightening
Well argued and documented discussion of how slavery was painfully abolished and a similarly well documented discussion of the abolitionist intent of Lincoln and most Republicans and the Constitutional barriers they struggled to overcome
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- Cooper
- 04-09-15
game changer. excellent history of antislavery pol
a much needed recovery Republican antislavrry policy under the freedom national principle. highly recommended reading
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- Michellerose
- 05-11-21
Listen with Caution
It feels a bit rose-tinted at places, but overall quite entertaining. Well worth the credit, but I would not recommend it as your first book read about the civil war or emancipation.
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- david allen
- 12-16-16
decent story overall
very repetitive. the narrator was great. goal was to suggest that the Emancipation Proclamation was no big deal.
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