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Chargement... The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul (édition 2021)par Brian Kilmeade
Information sur l'oeuvreThe President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul par Brian Kilmeade
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. In Mr Kilmeade's fifth history book, he covers Mr. Lincoln & Mr. Douglass. He begins with their early lives until the Civil War. While the slavery issue eventually unites them, the Civil War hangs heavy on Mr. Lincoln attempting to weave carefully while Mr. Douglass demands more action. Their pivotal meeting clears the air as their friendship strengthens. Mr. Lincoln's murder creates an aura of myth while Mr. Douglass lives to write & sadly later forgotten. Mr. Kilmeade's attempt to restore Mr. Douglass' deep impact on Mr. Lincoln's views succeeds. The reader will find a balanced look of the two men. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade tells the little-known story of how two American heroes moved from strong disagreement to friendship, and in the process changed the entire course of history. Abraham Lincoln was White, born impoverished on a frontier farm. Frederick Douglass was Black, a child of slavery who had risked his life escaping to freedom in the North. Neither man had a formal education, and neither had had an easy path to influence. No one would have expected them to become friendsâ??or to transform the country. But Lincoln and Douglass believed in their nationâ??s greatness. They were determined to make the grand democratic experiment live up to its ideals. Lincolnâ??s problem: he knew it was time for slavery to go, but how fast could the country change without being torn apart? And would it be possible to get rid of slavery while keeping Americaâ??s Constitution intact? Douglass said no, that the Constitution was irredeemably corrupted by slaveryâ??and he wanted Lincoln to move quickly. Sharing little more than the conviction that slavery was wrong, the two menâ??s paths eventually converged. Over the course of the Civil War, theyâ??d endure bloodthirsty mobs, feverish conspiracies, devastating losses on the battlefield, and a growing firestorm of unrest that would culminate on the fields of Gettysburg. As he did in George Washington's Secret Six, Kilmeade has transformed this nearly forgotten slice of history into a dramatic story that will keep you turning the pages to find out how these two heroes, through their principles and patience, not only changed each other, but made Americ Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)973.7092History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil WarClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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