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| Genere/forma: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Informazioni aggiuntive sul format: | Online version: Perry, Mark, 1950- Conceived in liberty. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1997 (OCoLC)605321364 Online version: Perry, Mark, 1950- Conceived in liberty. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1997 (OCoLC)632170169 |
| Persona incaricata: | Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain; William C Oates; Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain; William C Oates |
| Tipo materiale: | Biography |
| Tipo documento: | Book |
| Tutti gli autori / Collaboratori: |
Mark Perry |
| ISBN: | 0670862258 9780670862252 |
| Numero OCLC: | 37107129 |
| Descrizione: | x, 500 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contenuti: | Prologue : The rocky hill -- Part one. I went out among strangers -- Shadows luminous in the sunset glow -- Written in blood -- A fair English education -- To the harvest home of death -- Part two. If honor it be -- Kill the brave ones -- All that I am called to -- Men standing bright as golden grain -- God had nothing to do with it -- We know that some must fall -- Part three. The passing of the dead -- The bone of contention -- The same dark question -- God's ways seen by men -- What do you do about yours? -- Epilogue : Montgomery and Brunswick. |
| Responsabilità: | Mark Perry. |
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Abstract:
Drawing on a vast mine of documents, including letters, wartime journals, and political speeches, Perry brings their fascinating, uncannily parallel stories to life. Joshua Chamberlain, the son of a Maine farmer, first made his name as an academic at Bowdoin College, then as a brilliant military commander, before establishing a remarkably successful career in politics, including several terms as the governor of Maine.
William Oates, an Alabama frontiersman of humble origins, was also a farmer's son, and his valiant service during the war became the platform upon which he built a career as a lawyer who helped revitalize the Democratic party in the South. He was elected to both the U.S. Congress and the governorship of Alabama.
Chamberlain and Oates stand as forceful symbols of how the nation came to blows, as well as how the nation moved to redefine itself and - in President Abraham Lincoln's words - "bind up the wounds of war." Their story, as eloquently and dramatically told in the pages of Conceived in Liberty, creates a portrait of American possibility in a tumultuous century.
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