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A Perfect Union audiobook
- By: Catherine Allgor
- Narrator: Anne Twomey
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Historical
- Length: 15 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: April 04, 2006
- Language: English
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A Perfect Union Audiobook Summary
An extraordinary American comes to life in this vivid, incisive portrait of the early days of the republic–and the birth of modern politics hen the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation’s newly minted capital. Into that unsteady atmosphere which would soon enough erupt into another conflict with Britain in 1812, Dolley Madison arrived, alongside her husband James. Within a few years, she had mastered both the social and political intricacies of the city, and, by her death in 1849, was the most celebrated person in Washington. And yet, to most Americans, she’s best known for saving a portrait from the burning White House, or as the namesake for a line of ice cream.
Why did the Americans of her time give so much adulation to a lady so little known today? In A Perfect Union, Catherine Allgor reveals that while Dolley’s gender prevented her from openly playing politics, those very constraints of womanhood allowed her to construct an American democratic ruling style, and to achieve her husband’s political goals. And the way that she did so–by emphasizing cooperation over coercion, building bridges instead of bunkers–has left us with not only an important story about our past but a model for a modern form of politics.
Introducing a major new American historian, A Perfect Union is both an illuminating portrait of an unsung founder of our democracy, and a vivid account of a little-explored time in our history.
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A Perfect Union Audiobook Narrator
Anne Twomey is the narrator of A Perfect Union audiobook that was written by Catherine Allgor
Anne Twomey is an accomplished actress of both stage and screen. Her Broadway credits include Orpheus Descending, with Vanessa Redgrave, To Grandmother’s House We Go, and Nuts, for which she received a Tony nomination and a Theatre World award. Her many television appearances include guest roles on Seinfeld, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Cosby Show, Spin City, and the Christopher Reeves’ movie-of-the-week Rear Window. She has also appeared in the films Picture Perfect and Orpheus Descending. Anne appears frequently on New York-based episodic TV such as Third Watch and Law & Order. Anne’s many audiobook credits include works by such authors as Dean Koontz, Joyce Carol Oates, Tracy Chevalier, and Barbara Ehrenreich. She is married to actor John Bedford Lloyd, also an audiobook narrator.
About the Author(s) of A Perfect Union
Catherine Allgor is the author of A Perfect Union
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A Perfect Union Full Details
| Narrator | Anne Twomey |
| Length | 15 hours 58 minutes |
| Author | Catherine Allgor |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | April 04, 2006 |
| ISBN | 9781593979256 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A Perfect Union is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Historical
Additional info
The publisher of the A Perfect Union is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781593979256.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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