Civil War Politics

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    • Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
    • By: Joanne B. Freeman
    • Narrated by: Joanne B. Freeman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 519 ratings
    • The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War....

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    • Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
    • By: Steve Phillips
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Phillips charts the way forward for progressives and people of color after four years of Trump, arguing that Democrats must recognize the nature of the fight we're in, which is a contest between democracy and white supremacy left unresolved after the Civil War....

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    • Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
    • By: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,521 ratings
    • While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral....

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    • A Biography
    • By: William E. Gienapp
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, William Gienapp provides an up-to-date and vibrant biography of the most revered figure in United States history. While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War, Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early life....

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    • Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
    • By: David Williams, Howard Zinn - editor
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people - foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others....

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    • Dispatches from the American Future
    • By: Stephen Marche
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 476 ratings
    • On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the US Army uses lethal force to end a standoff with hard-right anti-government patriots....

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    • By: Bruce Catton
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 600 ratings
    • For a person seeking a single volume to serve as a captivating introduction and a dependable guide through...

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    • By: Tom Kawczynski
    • Narrated by: Jeff Winston
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • The first skirmishes are already being fought. The crisis America faces is between two incompatible visions of the future, and a nation sharply divided between them....

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    • And How to Stop Them
    • By: Barbara F. Walter
    • Narrated by: Beth Hicks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,127 ratings
    • A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States....

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    • A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders
    • By: Reihan Salam
    • Narrated by: Reihan Salam
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • For too long, liberals have suggested that only cruel, racist, or nativist bigots would want to restrict immigration. Anyone motivated by compassion would choose open, or nearly-open, borders. Now, Reihan Salam, the son of Bangladeshi immigrants, turns this argument on its head....

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    • A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Will Patton, Erik Larson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,159 ratings
    • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two....

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    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 48 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13,098 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant....

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    • John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
    • By: Michael Kauffman
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • In American Brutus, popular historian Michael W. Kauffman delivers a history that reads more like a best-selling novel....

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    • Power and Politics in the Civil War South
    • By: Stephanie McCurry
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • The story of the Confederate States of America has been told many times in heroic narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a different tale. Confederate Reckoning is the story of this political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy....

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    • Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
    • By: Stephanie McCurry
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • When the war broke out, Union soldiers assumed Confederate women would be innocent noncombatants. Experience soon challenged this simplistic belief. Stephanie McCurry reveals the vital and sometimes confounding roles women played on and off the battlefield....

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    • Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 520 ratings
    • In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America.....

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    • In the Service of My Country: A Life
    • By: James Lee McDonough
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 28 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,473 ratings
    • General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal....

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