- Taschenbuch: 512 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper Perennial (6. Mai 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060928859
- ISBN-13: 978-0060928858
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,3 x 13,5 x 3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.358.094 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Acclaimed and prolific historian Stephen B. Oates looks at the events leading to the American Civil War through the eyes and words of 13 historic figures. Beginning with the Missouri Crisis of 1820 and ending with the outbreak of hostilities, Oates presents the viewpoints of such famous personages as Henry Clay and John Brown. The author blends fact and fiction to bring the people and events to life, and this unique treatment makes the period's complicated history accessible to the general reader.
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Acclaimed biographer and historian Oates (A Woman of Valor, LJ 4/1/94) draws on his earlier work concerning Nat Turner, John Brown, and Abraham Lincoln to script a series of dramatic autobiographical monologs relating 13 different voices and viewpoints on the coming of the Civil War, from Jefferson Davis's and Lincoln's agonizing over disunion in 1860-61. Turner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Mary Chestnut, and others make cameo appearances, but Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Stephen A. Douglas, Davis, and Lincoln dominate the discussion. Oates's hybrid of You Are There and Mark Twain Tonight succeeds best when he squares off Lincoln and Douglas in their own words, but his Southern voices do not ring so true. In Oates's hands, the multiple-perspectives approach lacks the mystery and power William Faulkner gave it, but Oates does find "truth" in the method and reminds us that none of "the great men" (or women) controlled events. Their words tell us so. Recommended for college and major public libraries.?Randall M. Miller, St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia
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Oates has been able to seamlessly combine historical facts with well-reasoned, insightful extentions of the speakers thoughts and motives.
In order to understand one of the most important chapters in American history, it is imperative to not only read the documents left behind, but to delve into the thoughts and motives behind those documents. Oates has done this in an easy-to-read, yet historiclly accurate tome.
This is a must read for all those wishing to know why the Civil War was an inevitable chapter in American history.
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Stephen Oates has done what few historians have been able to do: Write a well-researched book that details the causes of the American Civil War and do it in a style fascinating to Civil War buff and "civilian" alike. The form is first person as Oates takes on the persona of the political and philosophical heavyweights from the forty-year period preceding the war. Purists may cringe at Oates unapologetic use of fiction, but it adds zest to a genre too often content with fact regurgitation. Jefferson, Clay, Calhoun, Lincoln, Chestnut, Douglas (and Douglass), to name a short list of characters, breath as they seldom do in a work of history. No dry facts here. This is a work that reconstructs the era so vividly that even a history-phobic reader will find it engrossing. The Civil War, while an inherently fascinating subject, is chronicled by too many works that enlighten only if the reader can remain awake reading them. The Approaching Fury makes turning out the lights for the evening an unwanted event. This writer cannot wait for the promised sequel.
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The Civil War. It facinates us to this day. Americans from the North and the South set in bloody combat against each other. But why? The easy answer is to simply say slavery. But was there more to it than this? Stephen Oates' book takes the first person perspective of 13 characters from this pivotal time in history. Ranging from Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Douglas to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oates portrays the feelings, actions, desires, and events that occured in the lives of these individuals and how they shaped the views of all Americans. Rightly titled, the book takes a more hostile and agressive air with each page as 19th century "movers and shakers" seem to shout at each other from their respective sections in the book. Oates' does a wonderful job of allowing us to see why America would turn against itself to survive and made it clear that, by the time the Civil War began, there were few options but to fight. Oates gives each of his characters personality and strong views about slavery, abolition, states rights, and the role of the federal government. It is as if we can almost see the line between North and South being drawn as the book progresses. An excellent read for any Civil War buff or historically inclined individual.
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