McKibben, Bill

Summary: "A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of Radio Free Vermont--"underground, underpowered, and underfoot"--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017

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Kreitner, Richard

Summary: From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name -- and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

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Pieczenik, Steve R.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1997

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Klein, Maury

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1997

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Cooper, William J. (William James)

Summary: Presents a revisionist account of the period between Lincoln's election and the firing on Fort Sumter, evaluating the contributions of key figures and the circumstances that contributed to the Civil War's inevitability.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

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French, David

Summary: "David French examines the depths of the American ideological divide, diagnoses its core causes, and provides a hopeful path forward. Polarization. Tribalization. Division. Some look at the growing political tension in our nation and call it a "cold civilwar." Others say it's nothing more than the culture war of the last three decades, amplified beyond reason by social media. David French...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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Peacock, Judith

Summary: Discusses the series of events that lead to the secession of the southern states from the Union and to the start of the Civil War in 1861.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2003

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Gale, Ryan

Summary: "Sparked by the secession of the Southern states and the creation of the Confederacy, the Civil War raged between 1861 and 1865. But many popular stories about the Civil War have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of the Civil War dives into the myths about the war fought over slavery and brings the truth to light. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021

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Davis, William C.

Summary: Discusses the events leading to the civil war, from the South Carolina secession convention to the fighting at Fort Sumter.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1983

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Catton, Bruce

Summary: This is the story of Lincoln's famous army of the Potomac during the early years of the Civil War, when it was under the command of General George B. McClellan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1951

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Crapol, Edward P.

Contents: Introduction -- Forewarned, forearmed -- Visions of national destiny -- Defending slavery -- Avoiding war & preserving peace -- Pacific visions -- Texas -- Retirement & secession -- Conclusion : precedents & legacies.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2006

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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Summary: Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006

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Stanchak, John E.

Summary: Examines many aspects of the Civil War, including the issue of slavery, secession, the raising of armies, individual battles, the commanders, Northern life, Confederate culture, the surrender of the South, and the aftermath.

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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2000

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Kelly, Joseph

Summary: An account of the two hundred-year practice of slavery in Charleston examines its hotly contested debates and early slave rebellions through the Nullification crisis and the secession that sparked the Civil War.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013

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Fields-Black, Edda L.

Summary: "In the spring and summer of 1863, as the outcome of the Civil War, and with it the fate of the nation, hung in the balance, Union forces struggled to capture the offensive. One promising place was along the coastal waters of South Carolina. A year and a half earlier, the Union Navy had taken the port cities of Port Royal and Beaufort, where the Union then made plans to attack the expansive...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024

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Raines, Howell

Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the history books. We all know how the Civil War was won: by courageous Yankees who triumphed over the South. But as veteran journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from Northern states who helped...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023

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