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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780375704093
In this luminous portrait of wartime Washington, Ernest B.
Furgurson–author of the widely acclaimed Chancellorsville
1863, Ashes of Glory, and Not War but
Murder–brings to vivid life the personalities and events that
animated the Capital during its most tumultuous time. Here among
the sharpsters and prostitutes, slaves and statesmen are detective
Allan Pinkerton, tracking down Southern sympathizers; poet Walt
Whitman, nursing the wounded; and accused Confederate spy Antonia
Ford, romancing her captor, Union Major Joseph Willard. Here are
generals George McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant, railroad crew boss
Andrew Carnegie, and architect Thomas Walter, striving to finish
the Capitol dome. And here is Abraham Lincoln, wrangling with
officers, pardoning deserters, and inspiring the nation. Freedom
Rising is a gripping account of the era that transformed
Washington into the world’s most influential city.
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