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 517 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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    • 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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    • 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 1,122 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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    • 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 1,515 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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    • By: John Hope Franklin
    • Narrated by: Lamont Mapp
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • First published in 1961, John Hope Franklin’s revelatory study of the Reconstruction Era is a landmark work of history, exploring the role of former slaves and dispelling longstanding popular myths about corruption and Radical rule....

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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 256 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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    • 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 598 ratings
    • For a person seeking a single volume to serve as a captivating introduction and a dependable guide through...

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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 473 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: Karl Marx
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • In 1871, the Franco-Prussian War was raging. Observing these events through news reports of the time, Karl Marx made three speeches to the International Workmen's Association....

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    • A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
    • By: Thomas J. Dilorenzo
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 522 ratings
    • But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician....

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    • The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant
    • By: Carol Berkin
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In these moving stories of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity....

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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 1,472 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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    • 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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    • 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 111 ratings
    • In American Brutus, popular historian Michael W. Kauffman delivers a history that reads more like a best-selling novel....

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    • By: Alan Furst
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Series: Night Soldiers, Book 1
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,883 ratings
    • New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is widely recognized as master of the historical spy novel. Furst’s works are vivid evocations of long-forgotten heroes and feature plots that unfold to the inexorable cadence of history.

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    • The War of the Presidents
    • By: Nigel Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 32 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • From a renowned biographer comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance—and how Abraham Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last, best chance to save the Union.

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