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Liberty and Union
David Herbert Donald
出版
Open Road Media
, 2016-03-22
主題
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Political Science / American Government / National
Law / Civil Rights
ISBN
1504034031
9781504034036
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=O0N_CwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner’s penetrating analysis of the crisis of democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.
In
Liberty and Union
, David Herbert Donald persuasively examines one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. With the same wit, eloquence, and willingness to question received wisdom that define his acclaimed biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Sumner, Donald suggests that it was the commonalities between North and South—and not their differences—that led to the earth-shattering conflict that was the Civil War and defined the chaotic years that followed.
Exploring the political, social, and economic impact of the war, emancipation, Reconstruction, and westward expansion, Donald combines history and philosophy, offering a bold and thought-provoking analysis that goes far in explaining the nation we live in today. Riveting, illuminating, and provocative,
Liberty and Union
sheds a brilliant light on a half-century of US history and addresses a perennial problem of democratic societies all over the world: how to reconcile majority rule and minority rights.