Year of Meteors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Year of Meteors write by Douglas R. Egerton. This book was released on 2010-10-04. Year of Meteors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Egerton tells the story of the dissolution of the Union as it should be told, not from the perspective of those looking back on the crisis, but from the clouded vision of those who lived through it.” -Carol Berkin, author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution and Civil War Wives In early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential race. Douglas, after all, was a national figure, a renowned orator, and led the only party that bridged North and South. But his Democrats fractured over the issue of slavery, creating a splintered four-way race that opened the door for the upstart Republicans, exclusively Northern, to steal the Oval Office. Dark horse Abraham Lincoln-not the first choice even of his own party-won the presidency with a record-low share of the popular vote. His victory instantly triggered the secession crisis. With a historian's keen insight and a veteran political reporter's eye for detail, Douglas R. Egerton re-creates the cascade of unforeseen events that confounded political bosses, set North and South on the road to disunion, and put not Stephen Douglas but his greatest rival in the White House. Year of Meteors delivers a vibrant cast of characters-from the gifted, flawed Douglas to the Southern “fire-eaters,” who gleefully sabotaged their own party, to the untested Abraham Lincoln-and a breakneck narrative of this most momentous year in American history.
Year of Meteors
Year of Meteors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Year of Meteors write by Laura Veirs. This book was released on . Year of Meteors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
American Meteor
American Meteor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Meteor write by Norman Lock. This book was released on 2015-05-18. American Meteor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A scrappy Brooklyn orphan turned vengeful assassin narrates a visionary tale of the American West In this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny—the second stand-alone book in The American Novels series—Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, receives a medal from General Grant, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln’s funeral train, goes to work for railroad mogul Thomas Durant, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer. When he comes face-to-face with Crazy Horse, his life will be spared but his dreams haunted for the rest of his days. By turns elegiac and comic, American Meteor is a novel of adventure, ideas, and mourning: a unique vision of America’s fabulous and murderous history. Norman Lock is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage and radio plays. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series.
The the World Below the Brine
The the World Below the Brine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The the World Below the Brine write by Walt Whitman. This book was released on 2021-08-10. The the World Below the Brine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nineteenth-century poet Walt Whitman employs the language of his day to express a wonder about the world below the sea that is timeless.
Year of Meteors
Year of Meteors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Year of Meteors write by David Chaloner. This book was released on 1972. Year of Meteors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
