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Ecstatic Nation

Confidence, Crisis, And Compromise, 1848-1877
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For America, the mid-nineteenth century was an era of vast expectation and expansion: the country dreamed big, craved new lands, developed new technologies, and finally confronted its greatest moral failure: slavery. Award-winning historian and literary critic Brenda Wineapple explores these feverish, ecstatic, conflicted years when Americans slowly transformed their country, at tragic cost, from a confederation into one nation, indivisible. A masterful synthesis of political, cultural, and intellectual history, populated by idiosyncratic, unforgettable characters such as P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, George Armstrong Custer, Horace Greeley, and Jefferson Davis, Ecstatic Nation is a spellbinding tale of America—its glory and greed, its aspirations and humiliations—in this exhilarating and momentous period.

Author Biography:

Brenda Wineapple is the prizewinning author of several books, including White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in New York City.
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August 5th, 2014
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  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
736
Dimensions
135x203x30
ISBN-13
9780061234583
Product ID
21854188

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