Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877

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Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 by Wineapple, Brenda

Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877

€30,81

Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877

€30,81
Author: Brenda Wineapple
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A New York Times Notable Book of 2013

A Kirkus Best Book of 2013

A Bookpage Best Book of 2013

Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery.
 
With a canvas of extraordinary characters, such as P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, and L. C. Q. Lamar, Ecstatic Nation brilliantly balances cultural and political history: It's a riveting account of the sectional conflict that preceded the Civil War, and it astutely chronicles the complex aftermath of that war and Reconstruction, including the promise that women would share in a new definition of American citizenship. It takes us from photographic surveys of the Sierra Nevadas to the discovery of gold in the South Dakota hills, and it signals the painful, thrilling birth of modern America.

An epic tale by award-winning author Brenda Wineapple, Ecstatic Nation lyrically and with true originality captures the optimism, the failures, and the tragic exuberance of a renewed Republic.



Author: Brenda Wineapple
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/05/2014
Pages: 736
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780061234583


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/24/2014 pg. 32

About the Author
Wineapple, Brenda: -

Brenda Wineapple is the prizewinning author of several books, including White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in New York City.

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