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Book Synopsis The Avenger Takes His Place by : Howard B. Means
Download or read book The Avenger Takes His Place written by Howard B. Means and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings to life one of the most critical moments in American history through the eyes of one of its most misunderestimated presidents--Andrew Johnson. Until now, books on Johnson have focussed exclusively on the impeachment trial (these books sold well during Clinton's impeachment proceedings). By contrast, award-winning journalist and novelist Howard Means focuses upon the first 45 days of Johnson's presidency, beginning with the assassination of Lincoln on April 14 and ending at the close of May 1865, when Johnson declared his terms of peace and set the nation on a course that still reverberates in our own time. Means' book shows how the nation's future hung in the balance when a Southerner (a slave-holder at the start of the Civil War) and a Democrat was being called upon to replace the most famous Republican president in history. At a time that required the most delicate of political touches, Johnson had shown that he was perhaps the most obstinate man in America. He had been drunk at his own inauguration as vice-president only a month before. Not only did Mary Todd Lincoln detest him, she also thought he had been among the plotters that murdered her husband. How would Johnson lead the nation? Would he be a reconciler like Lincoln? Or would he, as the Radicals and much of the nation expected, side with them? (The Avenger takes his place comes from a poem by Herman Melville that appeared shortly after Lincoln's death.) For forty-five days the nation--including a deeply anxious South--waited. That crucial month and a half is the focus of this book.
Book Synopsis The Avenger Takes His Place by : Howard Means
Download or read book The Avenger Takes His Place written by Howard Means and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings to life one of the most critical moments in American history through the eyes of one of its most misunderestimated presidents--Andrew Johnson. Until now, books on Johnson have focussed exclusively on the impeachment trial (these books sold well during Clinton's impeachment proceedings). By contrast, award-winning journalist and novelist Howard Means focuses upon the first 45 days of Johnson's presidency, beginning with the assassination of Lincoln on April 14 and ending at the close of May 1865, when Johnson declared his terms of peace and set the nation on a course that still reverberates in our own time. Means' book shows how the nation's future hung in the balance when a Southerner (a slave-holder at the start of the Civil War) and a Democrat was being called upon to replace the most famous Republican president in history. At a time that required the most delicate of political touches, Johnson had shown that he was perhaps the most obstinate man in America. He had been drunk at his own inauguration as vice-president only a month before. Not only did Mary Todd Lincoln detest him, she also thought he had been among the plotters that murdered her husband. How would Johnson lead the nation? Would he be a reconciler like Lincoln? Or would he, as the Radicals and much of the nation expected, side with them? ("The Avenger takes his place" comes from a poem by Herman Melville that appeared shortly after Lincoln's death.) For forty-five days the nation--including a deeply anxious South--waited. That crucial month and a half is the focus of this book.
Download or read book Avenger written by Frederick Forsyth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Forsyth is back with Avenger! A heart-stopping thriller of murder, intrigue, deception, and revenge Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathlon training. But Dexter is no ordinary lawyer. On Sundays, he reads the paper and shuffles around his dark, empty house, trying to forget about a life he has lost forever. Until, of course, Dexter reads something in the papers that sends him the necessary signal. Until one of the handful who know of Dexter's other life tries to contact him. For in a world that has forgotten right and wrong, few can settle a score like Cal Dexter can. But the game is changing, and this time CIA agent Kevin McBride must find a way to stop Dexter before his quest for vengeance throws the world into chaos.
Book Synopsis Israel: The soul, its powers and capacity by : Johannes Pedersen
Download or read book Israel: The soul, its powers and capacity written by Johannes Pedersen and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Israel, Its Life and Culture by : Johannes Pedersen
Download or read book Israel, Its Life and Culture written by Johannes Pedersen and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Subversive Genealogy by : Michael Rogin
Download or read book Subversive Genealogy written by Michael Rogin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-04-18 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes several claims which ought to be stated at the outset: that Herman Melville is a recorder and interpreter of American society whose work is comparable to that of the great nineteenth-century European realists; that there was crisis of bourgeois society at midcentury on both continents, but that in America it entered politics by way of slavery and race rather than class; that the crisis called into question the ideal realm of liberal political freedom, and also that Melville was particularly sensitive to the American crisis because of the political importance of his clan and the political history of his family
Book Synopsis The Avenger; Or, The Oath of Blood. A German Tale. Translated (by Robert Huish), Etc by : Carl SPINDLER (Novelist)
Download or read book The Avenger; Or, The Oath of Blood. A German Tale. Translated (by Robert Huish), Etc written by Carl SPINDLER (Novelist) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies of the Man Paul by : Robert Elliott Speer
Download or read book Studies of the Man Paul written by Robert Elliott Speer and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Praise of Lincoln by : Archie Dallas Williams
Download or read book The Praise of Lincoln written by Archie Dallas Williams and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Memory of Lincoln written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Marr and Other Poems by : Herman Melville
Download or read book John Marr and Other Poems written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Herman Melville: Poems by : Herman Melville
Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville: Poems written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Herman Melville by : Herman Melville
Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Herman Melville: Poems : containing battle-pieces, John Marr and other sailors, Timoleon and miscellaneous poems by : Herman Melville
Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville: Poems : containing battle-pieces, John Marr and other sailors, Timoleon and miscellaneous poems written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Miriam, the Avenger by : Emma Southworth
Download or read book Miriam, the Avenger written by Emma Southworth and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Book Synopsis The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln by : Larry Tagg
Download or read book The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln written by Larry Tagg and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely look at the atmosphere of political hostility surrounding the Civil War, and the venom faced by America’s sixteenth president. Today, Abraham Lincoln is a beloved American icon, widely considered to be our best president. It was not always so. This book takes a look at what Lincoln’s contemporaries actually thought and said about him during his lifetime, when political hostilities, and ultimately civil war, raged. The era in which our sixteenth president lived and governed was the most rough-and-tumble in the history of American politics. The hostility behind the criticism aimed at Lincoln by the great men of his time, on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, is startling, the spectacular prejudice against him often shocking for its cruelty, intensity, and unrelenting vigor. The plain truth is that Lincoln was deeply reviled by many in his time. This book is both an entertaining read and a well-researched, serious look at the political context that begat the president’s predicament. Lincoln’s humanity has been unintentionally trivialized by some historians and writers who have hidden away the real man in a patina of bronze. This book helps us better understand the man he was, and how history is better and more clearly viewed through a long-distance lens. “Not the warm and fuzzy portrait we’re used to seeing . . . An eye-opening study, the first of its kind to focus on what Lincoln’s contemporaries really thought of him. On the other hand, this is not mean-spirited Lincoln-bashing . . . Tagg assesses his presidency through the social and political context of mid-19th century America. It was a time, for example, when ‘the rabid press routinely destroyed the reputations of public men,’ when the stature of the presidency, ‘stained by feeble performances from a string of the poorest presidents in the nation’s history,’ had plunged over decades.” —Civil War Times Magazine
Book Synopsis Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by : Herman Melville
Download or read book Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War written by Herman Melville and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first book of poetry published by the American author Herman Melville. The volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Fathers" and its 72 poems deal with the battles and personalities of the American Civil War and their aftermath. Also included are Notes and a Supplement in prose in which Melville sets forth his thoughts on how the Post-war Reconstruction should be carried out.
