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.
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 354 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.
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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:
Download or read book The Avenger of Thule written by Art Wiederhold and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-03-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avenger of Thule is rich in characters, action and plot. A young prince returns to his father's kingdom after a self-imposed exile, only to find it in the hands of a conquering horde. Determined to exact vengeance upon his enemies, Arka-Dal gathers up an army and forms alliances to do just that. Along the way, he discovers a box containing ancient books and runs afoul of a powerful sorcerer.
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
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:
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Download or read book Patriot Fires written by Melinda Lawson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War is often credited with giving birth to the modern American state. The demands of warfare led to the centralization of business and industry and to an unprecedented expansion of federal power. But the Civil War did more than that: as Melinda Lawson shows, it brought about a change in American national identity, redefining the relationship between the individual and the government. Though much has been written about the Civil War and the making of the political and economic American nation, this is the first comprehensive study of the role that the war played in the shaping of the cultural and ideological nation-state. In Patriot Fires, Lawson explains how, when threatened by the rebellious South, the North came together as a nation and mobilized its populace for war. With no formal government office to rally citizens, the job of defining the war in patriotic terms fell largely to private individuals or associations, each with their own motives and methods. Lawson explores how these "interpreters" of the war helped instill in Americans a new understanding of loyalty to country. Through efforts such as sanitary fairs to promote the welfare of soldiers, the war bond drives of Jay Cooke, and the establishment of Union Leagues, Northerners cultivated a new sense of patriotism rooted not just in the subjective American idea, but in existing religious, political, and cultural values. Moreover, Democrats and Republicans, Abolitionists, and Abraham Lincoln created their own understandings of American patriotism and national identity, raising debates over the meaning of the American "idea" to new heights. Examining speeches, pamphlets, pageants, sermons, and assemblies, Lawson shows how citizens and organizations constructed a new kind of nationalism based on a nation of Americans rather than a union of states—a European-styled nationalism grounded in history and tradition and celebrating the preeminence of the nation-state. Original in its insights and innovative in its approach, Patriot Fires is an impressive work of cultural and intellectual history. As America engages in new conflicts around the globe, Lawson shows us that issues addressed by nation builders of the nineteenth century are relevant once again as the meaning of patriotism continues to be explored.
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:
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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:
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:
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.
