A Nation Rising: Untold Tales from Americas Hidden History
H.rper | 2011 | ISBN: 0061118214, 0061118206 | 294 pages | epub | 0,5 MB
In the dramatic period from 1800 through 1850, the United States went from a tiny newborn nation on the Atlantic seaboard to a near-empire that spanned the continent. But Americas path to nationhood was vastly more complex than the tidily packaged national myth of a destiny made manifest by visionary political leaders and fearless pioneers. In A Nation Rising, bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis offers fascinating, intertwining stories about historical episodes whose great issuesambition, power, territorial expansion, slavery, intolerance, civil rights, freedom of the pressreverberate to this day, including:
Aaron Burrs 1807 trial, culminating in one of our nations first media circuses
The 1813 Indian uprising and ensuing massacre, exposing the powerful conflicts at the heart of Americas expansion
The mutiny aboard the slave ship Creole, illustrating how the institution of slavery both destroyed lives and warped our nations founding
The bloody Bible Riots in Philadelphia, erupting in an early episode of deadly anti-immigrant sentiment
Eye-opening history and riveting storytelling, A Nation Rising is a powerful reminder of the ways in which our past continues to shape our present.
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