Approaching Fury Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861

Name: Approaching Fury Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861
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ISBN: 9780803269316

ISBN-10: 0803269315

ISBN-13: 9780803269316

Edition: 2012

Authors: Stephen B. Oates

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Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of thirteen principal players in the drama, from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay in the Missouri crisis of 1820 down to Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and Abraham Lincoln in the final crisis of 1861. This innovative approach shows the crucial role that perception of events played in the sectional hostilities that pushed the United States irreversibly toward a national calamity.Nat Turner, William Lloyd Garrison, John C. Calhoun, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Fitzhugh, John Brown, and Mary Boykin Chesnut also provide perspectives.…

Book details

List price: $53.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 4/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 514
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.52" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Stephen B. Oates is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. His books include Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln . Oates has been awarded numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and Nevins-Freeman Award of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago for lifetime achievement in the field of Civil War studies.