Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War - Hardcover
by Jon Grinspan
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury PublishingISBN-13:9781639730643ISBN-10:1639730648UPC:9781639730643Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Social HistoryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), 19th CenturySize:9.50 x 6.49 x 1.15 inchesWeight:1.4705Product ID:SCSGSBE4CF
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
"Excellent."-Wall Street Journal * "A must-read."-The Civil War Monitor
A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery...Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury PublishingISBN-13:9781639730643ISBN-10:1639730648UPC:9781639730643Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Social HistoryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), 19th CenturySize:9.50 x 6.49 x 1.15 inchesWeight:1.4705Product ID:SCSGSBE4CF
Jon Grinspan is a curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. He is the author of two other books, The Age of Acrimony and The Virgin Vote, frequently contributes to the New York Times, and has been featured in the New Yorker and the Washington Post and on CBS Sunday Morning. At the Smithsonian, he collects objects from historic and contemporary...
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