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The Zealot and the Emancipator audiobook
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrator: Robert Fass
- Category: Civil War Period (1850-1877), History, United States
- Length: 16 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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The Zealot and the Emancipator Audiobook Summary
Master storyteller and bestselling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin.
John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery.
Brown’s violence pointed ambitious Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln toward a different solution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path back to Washington and perhaps to the White House. Yet his caution could not protect him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in motion. After Brown’s arrest, his righteous dignity on the way to the gallows led many in the North to see him as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and won election as president. But the time for moderation had passed, and Lincoln’s fervent belief that democracy could resolve its moral crises peacefully faced its ultimate test.
The Zealot and the Emancipator is acclaimed historian H. W. Brands’s thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
Photograph of Abraham Lincoln courtesy of the White House Collection/White House Historical Association
https://library.whitehousehistory.org/fotoweb/archives/5017-Digital-Library/Main%20Index/Portraits/5.tif.info
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The Zealot and the Emancipator Full Details
| Narrator | Robert Fass |
| Length | 16 hours 39 minutes |
| Author | H. W. Brands |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593293232 |
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The publisher of the The Zealot and the Emancipator is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: united states history, american, american civil war, book lovers gifts, war, gifts men, gifts for grandma, economics, abraham lincoln books, ap us history, civil war books, lincoln, abraham lincoln, south, founding brothers, war of 1812, American Revolution, civil war, american history books, biography, autobiographies, biographies, world history, history books, american history, us history, presidents, slavery, history, john brown, h w brands, abraham lincoln biography, h.w. brands, the civil war, lincoln book, hw brands books, History, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877), History, United States, 19th Century, Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State The BISAC Subject Code is Civil War Period (1850-1877), History, United States
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The publisher of the The Zealot and the Emancipator is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593293232.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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