The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861
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ISBN: 0060928859 / Publisher: HarpPeren, May 1998
An award-winning historian offers a fresh look at the issues and viewpoints of the period leading up to the American Civil War through the voices of thirteen principal figures, from Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lincoln. Reprint. National ad/promo.
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Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices, and from the viewpoints, of 13 principal players in the drama, including Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Nat Turner, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass. This unique approach shows the crucial role that perception of events played in the sectional hostilities that bore the United States irreversibly into civil war.In writing the monologues, Oates draws on the actual words of Ills speakers and simulates how they would describe the crucial events in which they were the principal actors or witnesses. All the events and themes in the monologues adhere to historical record.The result is an exciting history that brings the personalities and events of the coming of the American Civil War vividly to life.
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