Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877

by Brenda Wineapple

Book Overview

A New York Times Notable Book of 2013

A Kirkus Best Book of 2013

A Bookpage Best Book of 2013

Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery.
 
With a canvas of extraordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061234575
• ISBN13: 9780061234576
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"