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Wide Awake The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln And Spurred The Civil War
Wide Awake The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln And Spurred The Civil War
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Description: A propulsive account of our history's most surprising most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti - slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign a handful of fired - up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti - slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men and a number of women were organizing boisterous uniformed torch - bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes mostly working - class Americans in their twenties became one of the largest most spectacular and most influential political movements in our history. To some it demonstrated the power of a rising majority to push back against slavery. To others it looked like a paramilitary force training to invade the South. Within a year the nation would be at war with itself and many on both sides would point to the Wide Awakes as the mechanism that got them there. In this gripping narrative Smithsonian historian Jon Grinspan examines how exactly our nation crossed the threshold from a political campaign into a war. Perfect for readers of Lincoln on the Verge and The Field of Blood Wide Awake bears witness to the power of protest the fight for majority rule and the defense of free speech. At its core Wide Awake illuminates a question American democracy keeps posing about the precarious relationship between violent rhetoric and violent actions.
Title: Wide Awake The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln And Spurred The Civil War
Author(s): Grinspan Jon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Usa
Barcode: 9781639730643
Pages: 352 Pages, 16pg Color Insert
Publication Date: 5/14/2024
Category: American Civil War
Description: A propulsive account of our history's most surprising most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti - slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign a handful of fired - up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti - slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men and a number of women were organizing boisterous uniformed torch - bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes mostly working - class Americans in their twenties became one of the largest most spectacular and most influential political movements in our history. To some it demonstrated the power of a rising majority to push back against slavery. To others it looked like a paramilitary force training to invade the South. Within a year the nation would be at war with itself and many on both sides would point to the Wide Awakes as the mechanism that got them there. In this gripping narrative Smithsonian historian Jon Grinspan examines how exactly our nation crossed the threshold from a political campaign into a war. Perfect for readers of Lincoln on the Verge and The Field of Blood Wide Awake bears witness to the power of protest the fight for majority rule and the defense of free speech. At its core Wide Awake illuminates a question American democracy keeps posing about the precarious relationship between violent rhetoric and violent actions.
Title: Wide Awake The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln And Spurred The Civil War
Author(s): Grinspan Jon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Usa
Barcode: 9781639730643
Pages: 352 Pages, 16pg Color Insert
Publication Date: 5/14/2024
Category: American Civil War