Walter A Mcdougall: 2 books
Freedom Just Around the Corner
A New American History: 1585-1828
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
A powerful reinterpretation of the founding of America by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian.
The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years," states Walter McDougall in his preface to Freedom Just Around the Corner. With this statement...
Throes of Democracy
The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
"And then there came a day of fire!" From its shocking curtain-raiser—the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835—to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall's Throes...