Reveille In Washington
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Reveille In Washington
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Author : Margaret Leech
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2011-06-07
Reveille In Washington written by Margaret Leech and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-07 with History categories.
1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractured, squalid, colored by patriotism and treason, and deeply divided along the political lines that will soon embroil the nation in bloody conflict. Chaotic and corrupt, the young city is populated by bellicose congressmen, Confederate conspirators, and enterprising prostitutes. Soldiers of a volunteer army swing from the dome of the Capitol, assassins stalk the avenues, and Abraham Lincoln struggles to justify his presidency as the Union heads to war. Reveille in Washington focuses on the everyday politics and preoccupations of Washington during the Civil War. From the stench of corpse-littered streets to the plunging lace on Mary Lincoln’s evening gowns, Margaret Leech illuminates the city and its familiar figures—among them Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, William Seward, and Mary Surratt—in intimate and fascinating detail. Leech’s book remains widely recognized as both an impressive feat of scholarship and an uncommonly engrossing work of history.
Reveille In Washington
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Author : Margaret Leech
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
Reveille In Washington written by Margaret Leech and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with categories.
Washington Itself
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Author : E. J. Applewhite
language : en
Publisher: Madison Books
Release Date : 1993-06-30
Washington Itself written by E. J. Applewhite and has been published by Madison Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-06-30 with Reference categories.
Describes Washington's government institutions, explaining what the inhabitants of each building do on a day-to-day basis, and covers museums, monuments, embassies, and the Washington metro.
Lincoln S Citadel The Civil War In Washington Dc
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Author : Kenneth J. Winkle
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2013-08-19
Lincoln S Citadel The Civil War In Washington Dc written by Kenneth J. Winkle and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-19 with History categories.
The stirring history of a president and a capital city on the front lines of war and freedom. In the late 1840s, Representative Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs. Sprigg’s boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Known as Abolition House, Mrs. Sprigg’s hosted lively dinner-table debates of antislavery politics by the congressional boarders. The unusually rapid turnover in the enslaved staff suggested that there were frequent escapes north to freedom from Abolition House, likely a cog in the underground railroad. These early years in Washington proved formative for Lincoln. In 1861, now in the White House, Lincoln could gaze out his office window and see the Confederate flag flying across the Potomac. Washington, DC, sat on the front lines of the Civil War. Vulnerable and insecure, the capital was rife with Confederate sympathizers. On the crossroads of slavery and freedom, the city was a refuge for thousands of contraband and fugitive slaves. The Lincoln administration took strict measures to tighten security and established camps to provide food, shelter, and medical care for contrabands. In 1863, a Freedman’s Village rose on the grounds of the Lee estate, where the Confederate flag once flew. The president and Mrs. Lincoln personally comforted the wounded troops who flooded wartime Washington. In 1862, Lincoln spent July 4 riding in a train of ambulances carrying casualties from the Peninsula Campaign to Washington hospitals. He saluted the “One-Legged Brigade” assembled outside the White House as “orators,” their wounds eloquent expressions of sacrifice and dedication. The administration built more than one hundred military hospitals to care for Union casualties. These are among the unforgettable scenes in Lincoln’s Citadel, a fresh, absorbing narrative history of Lincoln’s leadership in Civil War Washington. Here is the vivid story of how the Lincoln administration met the immense challenges the war posed to the city, transforming a vulnerable capital into a bastion for the Union.
Freedom Rising
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Author : Ernest B. Furgurson
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Freedom Rising written by Ernest B. Furgurson and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
In this luminous portrait of wartime Washington, Ernest B. Furgurson–author of the widely acclaimed Chancellorsville 1863, Ashes of Glory, and Not War but Murder--brings to vivid life the personalities and events that animated the Capital during its most tumultuous time. Here among the sharpsters and prostitutes, slaves and statesmen are detective Allan Pinkerton, tracking down Southern sympathizers; poet Walt Whitman, nursing the wounded; and accused Confederate spy Antonia Ford, romancing her captor, Union Major Joseph Willard. Here are generals George McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant, railroad crew boss Andrew Carnegie, and architect Thomas Walter, striving to finish the Capitol dome. And here is Abraham Lincoln, wrangling with officers, pardoning deserters, and inspiring the nation. Freedom Rising is a gripping account of the era that transformed Washington into the world’s most influential city.
Reveille For Radicals
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Author : Saul Alinsky
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-08-25
Reveille For Radicals written by Saul Alinsky and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-25 with Political Science categories.
Legendary community organizer Saul Alinsky inspired a generation of activists and politicians with Reveille for Radicals, the original handbook for social change. Alinsky writes both practically and philosophically, never wavering from his belief that the American dream can only be achieved by an active democratic citizenship. First published in 1946 and updated in 1969 with a new introduction and afterword, this classic volume is a bold call to action that still resonates today.
The Autobiography Of Nicholas Said
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Author : Nicholas Said
language : en
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Release Date : 2014-04-24
The Autobiography Of Nicholas Said written by Nicholas Said and has been published by Jazzybee Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The narrative of Nicholas Said is one of the most impressive among slaves' accounts. Said was born as a free man in Africa, enslaved when 14 years old and traveled to five continents and countless countries. He learned seven languages and finally settled in Alabama. This is an autobiography of his incredible life.
The Annotated Memoirs Of Ulysses S Grant
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Author : Ulysses S. Grant
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-04
The Annotated Memoirs Of Ulysses S Grant written by Ulysses S. Grant and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses Grant’s Memoirs yet published. One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant’s landmark memoir, and expands the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is typically read. No previous edition combines such a sweep of historical and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet, an English professor obsessed with Grant for decades, brings to the table. Whether exploring novels Grant read at West Point or presenting majestic images culled from archives, Samet curates a richly annotated, highly collectible edition that will fascinate Civil War buffs. The edition also breaks new ground in its attack on the “Lost Cause” revisionism that still distorts our national conversation about the legacy of the Civil War. Never has Grant’s transformation from tanner’s son to military leader been more insightfully and passionately explained than in this timely edition, appearing on the 150th anniversary of Grant’s 1868 presidential election.
Democracy
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Author : Henry Adams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
Democracy written by Henry Adams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Legislators categories.
Taps At Reveille
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Author : Fitzgerald F.S.
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date : 2009
Taps At Reveille written by Fitzgerald F.S. and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
F. S. Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «Taps at Reveille» is a collection of brilliant short stories: «The Scandal Detectives», «The Freshest Boy», «He Thinks He’s Wonderful», «The Captured Shadow», «The Perfect Life», «First Blood», «A Nice Quiet Place», «A Woman with a Past», «Crazy Sunday», «Two Wrongs», «The Night of Chancellorsville» and many others.