Forge of Empires Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871 |
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Author:
| Beran, Michael Knox |
ISBN: | 978-1-4165-7158-2 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2007 |
Publisher: | Free Press
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Imprint: | Free Press |
Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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With its vivid narrative and memorable portraiture, Forge of Empires sheds new light on a question of perennial importance: How are free states made, and how are they unmade? In the same decade that saw freedom's victories, one of the trinity of liberators revealed himself as an enemy to the free state, and another lost heart. What Lincoln called the "germ" of freedom, which was "to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind," came close to being annihilated in a world...
More DescriptionWith its vivid narrative and memorable portraiture, Forge of Empires sheds new light on a question of perennial importance: How are free states made, and how are they unmade? In the same decade that saw freedom's victories, one of the trinity of liberators revealed himself as an enemy to the free state, and another lost heart. What Lincoln called the "germ" of freedom, which was "to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind," came close to being annihilated in a world crisis that pitted the free state against new philosophies of terror and coercion