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Freedom Rising : Washington in the Civil War by Ernest B. Furgurson (2004, HC)
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A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Era
- 1800s
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780375404542
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375404546
ISBN-13
9780375404542
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30247893
Product Key Features
Book Title
Freedom Rising : Washington in the Civil War
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
29.8 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-040820
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
973.7/092/2753
Synopsis
Freedom Risingis a fresh, intensely human account of how the Civil War transformed the nation's capital from the debating forum for a loose union of states into the seat of a forceful central government. Before 1861, Washington was a dusty, muddy city of 60,000, joked about by urban sophisticates from New York and Boston. But at the onset of war, thousands of soldiers, job seekers, nurses, good-time girls, gamblers, newly freed slavesall kinds of Americanspoured in. For days, Washington was cut off from the North, and no one was sure whether it would become the capital of the Union or the Confederacy. Ernest Furgursonauthor of the widely acclaimedChancellorsville 1863, Ashes of Glory,andNot War but Murdertells the story through the men and women who brought the city to rambunctious life. He re-creates historic figures such as William Seward, who fancied himself Abraham Lincoln's prime minister; poet Walt Whitman, who nursed the wounded; and detective Allan Pinkerton, who tracked down Southern sympathizers; and he introduces intriguing others, such as Mayor James Berret, arrested for disloyalty; architect Thomas Walter, striving to finish the Capitol dome in the middle of war; and accused Confederate spy Antonia Ford, romancing her captor, Union Major Joseph Willard, operator of the capital's premier hotel. Here is Mary Lincoln, mourning the death of her son Willie, seeking solace from fakers who conducted séances in the White House. And here is the presidentin all his compassion, determination, and complexityinspiring the nation, wrangling with generals, pardoning deserters, and barely escaping death on the ramparts of Fort Stevens as Jubal Early's Southern army invades the outskirts of Washington and fights the Union Army within five miles of the White House. For four years, the city was awash in drama and sometimes comedy, until the assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth became the tragedy of the century. By the time the grand two-day victory parade of 150,000 troops surged along Pennsylvania Avenue, the men and women who had arrived in such great numbers at the start of the war had made Washington a capital to be reckoned with throughout the world.Freedom Risingis an invaluable aid to understanding the making of America.
LC Classification Number
E501.F87 2004
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