Book description
“Excellent."-Wall Street Journal * “A must-read.”-The Civil War Monitor
A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war.
At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young…
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1 author picked Wide Awake as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Historan Jon Grinspan reminds Americans that crazy politics have long been with us. He writes about the Wide Awakea mid-19th century, mass movement that cropped up very quickly and tread the line between politicking and menacing. You can read my review about it at https://www.aei.org/op-eds/fringe-benefits/
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