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Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877
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by Walter A. Mcdougall
Sales Rank: 8032
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 816 pages
Published by: HarperEdition: 1st Edition March 11, 2008
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0060567511
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0060567514
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.4 x 2.1 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
The subtitle's overextended claim that the Civil War era started in 1829 sets the tone for this hulking second volume (after Freedom Just Around the Corner) of Pulitzer-winner McDougall's projected multivolume History of the U.S. The author tries both to deflate national pride and celebrate national progress in the era in which the nation spread across the continent, shattered in a war and came back together. He does so in an opinionated, breezy narrative that focuses on individuals—lesser known as well as famous, writers and thinkers as well as political and military leaders. But McDougall's History is basically a traditional one about party conflicts, the westward course of empire, war, the Transcendentalists, frontier tensions, railroads, slavery, religious tensions and robber barons. You'd never know that a huge body of History on the real lives of 19th-century Americans had been produced in recent decades. Not many women appear, or Indians, slaves and freedmen, or working people, many of whom helped make the young democracy vital and tumultuous. McDougall's strength lies in deflating cherished reputations, like de Tocqueville's, and restoring others', like pastor and intellectual Orestes Brownson's. A pleasing romp through a critical period in the nation's history, it sticks to the tried and true. 19 maps. (Mar. 11)
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Booklist (starred review)
"History buffs will defnitely gravitate to this thick book. The second in a projected multivolume History of the U.S., it proves as boisterous as the busy, mid-nineteenth-century Americans whose expanding, industrializing, and warring McDougall chronicles. . . . A provocative survey frmo a premier historian."
Reader Reviews
Publisher's Weekly gives this book a rather sour-faced, snide and sneering review, because there isn't all that much in it about blacks, Indians and women. Or, as thy would have it, in their near-hysteric wishy-washy political correctness: African Americans, Native Americans and Americans-without-a-[...]! First of all: their namby-pamby PC views are annoying, don't foist them on me!!! I'll reach my own conclusions about this book!!! Second: they are downright wrong: there is more than enough in this book about blacks, Indians and women! The life of slaves, of freedmen, ther Trail of Tears, Dorothea Dix, Harriet Beecher Stowe: it and they are all treated in this bookof Slavery. That probably is not as much as you whining democrats would have liked, but that's your problem. Mr. McDougall stated he wished to write a history of the USA according to his own view and beliefs and he has done just that. He has done so magnificently. His well-crafted prose is a joy to read, the writing in this book is really excellent. The history is top-knotch too: Mr. McDougall and he offers some surprising insights and interpretations. His 15 pages on Lincoln and his chapter on the Civil War are some of the best and original concise treatments of the subject matter I have ever come across!! These parts alone more than justify buying and reading this book. A very good book, very good indeed! higly recommended! Mr. McDougall: I just ordered the prequel and am eagerly awaiting the next volume. Keep it up!
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