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    Liberty for All?: Book 5 (1820-1860)
    Liberty for All?: Book 5 (1820-1860)
    Liberty for All?: Book 5 (1820-1860)
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    Liberty for All?: Book 5 (1820-1860)

    Written by Joy Hakim

    Narrated by Christina Moore

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    About this audiobook

    Early nineteenth-century America could just about be summed up by Henry David Thoreau's words when he said, "Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go free." It was an exuberant time for the diverse citizens of the United States, who included a range of folks from mountain men and railroad builders to whalers and farmers, as they pushed forward into the open frontier, and all their hopes and fears are captured in Liberty for All? In addition to colorful accounts of the massive westward migration, the California Gold Rush, a war with Mexico, the Oregon boundary conflict, Texas and the Alamo, Liberty for All? takes a deep look at the issue that began to gnaw at the country's core: How, in the land where "all men are created equal," could there be slaves? - from the audiobook cover
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 5, 2008
    ISBN9781440799136
    Liberty for All?: Book 5 (1820-1860)

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      Book Five of A History of US is both the same old, same old and something different. Ms. Hakim actually backs up a bit and looks again at some of the years covered in Volume 4. But whereas in The New Nation she focused more on the political events of the era, in this volume she takes a more cultural path. Liberty for All? follows the mountain men, the forty-niners, the Mormons, the whalers, the suffragettes, the authors, poets and painters who all added to the tapestry of America. Of course, running throughout the book is the issue of slavery, which built up over the years. The book ends in 1860 with the fuse burning and the powder keg ready to explode.--J.