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The relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his two most
influential ancestors, his mother and "the Virginia planter," a
slaveholder, a shadowy grandfather he likely never met, is rarely
mentioned in Lincoln biographies or in history texts. However,
Lincoln, forever linked to the cause of freedom and equality in
America, spoke candidly of the planter to his law partner, Billy
Herndon, who recalled his words, "My mother inherited his qualities
and I hers. All that I am or ever hope to be I get from my
mother-God bless her." This vital two-generation relationship was
nonetheless problematic. In Lincoln's boyhood the planter was a
figure he ridiculed while in his young manhood the planter evolved
into a role model whom Lincoln revered and associated with
Jefferson's overdue ideal that "all men are created equal." Thus
galvanized "by blood" to educate himself, to stand for election and
to oppose slavery, Lincoln quit farming at age 22. This book
explains how he thus followed an inherited family dream.
Called "The Poet Laureate of Radio" by critics, Norman Corwin was
the top writer at CBS when CBS reigned supreme in radio, and when
radio itself dominated public attention. This biography tells the
story of Norman's unlikely rise from a triple-decker tenement on
Bremen Street in East Boston to the top rung of radio writers
during the Golden Age of Radio. A self-taught writer who never
graduated from high school, he learned what audiences craved, and
he gave it to them. His nuanced "theater of the mind" dramas,
tender love stories, and witty comedies were hits talked about long
after they were broadcast, and, when his scripts were published,
became bestsellers. The week after Pearl Harbor, Norman's show "We
Hold These Truths" was broadcast to the largest radio audience
ever. His V-E Day broadcast on May 8, 1945, "On a Note of Triumph,"
made a similarly enduring mark and still constitutes the gold
standard for wartime drama.
In February, 1898, an explosion lit up the Havana night sky as
the battleship Maine sank, killing over two hundred men and raising
immediate suspicions of Spanish sabotage. The explosion and the
famous later battle cry, "Remember the Maine " both obscure the
fact that it was not a bomb on a battleship but a speech in the
United States Senate that triggered the all-volunteer War of
1898.
In this book, Wayne Soini first tracks doughty Senator Redfield
Proctor's eventful life, then follows Proctor's spur-of-the-moment
trip to Havana after the Maine sank, a trip that turned into a far
more extensive tour of Cuba and incidentally of the world's first
concentration camps. Moved by what he saw to dedicate himself to
relieving the reconcentrados, Proctor delivered his most important
address on March 17, 1898. On that day, after several unplanned and
unexpected encounters, Proctor stood before his colleagues and the
country's press as an eyewitness to mass suffering and
two-hundred-thousand civilian deaths. Stirred by Proctor's
unemotional but honest report of a Caribbean Holocaust, Americans
joined ranks for the first major American humanitarian military
intervention overseas.
The Cuban Speech follows history's winding and twisting path as
the United States went to war in early 1898 behind a Vermont Yankee
of few words.
In February, 1898, an explosion lit up the Havana night sky as
the battleship Maine sank, killing over two hundred men and raising
immediate suspicions of Spanish sabotage. The explosion and the
famous later battle cry, "Remember the Maine " both obscure the
fact that it was not a bomb on a battleship but a speech in the
United States Senate that triggered the all-volunteer War of
1898.
In this book, Wayne Soini first tracks doughty Senator Redfield
Proctor's eventful life, then follows Proctor's spur-of-the-moment
trip to Havana after the Maine sank, a trip that turned into a far
more extensive tour of Cuba and incidentally of the world's first
concentration camps. Moved by what he saw to dedicate himself to
relieving the reconcentrados, Proctor delivered his most important
address on March 17, 1898. On that day, after several unplanned and
unexpected encounters, Proctor stood before his colleagues and the
country's press as an eyewitness to mass suffering and
two-hundred-thousand civilian deaths. Stirred by Proctor's
unemotional but honest report of a Caribbean Holocaust, Americans
joined ranks for the first major American humanitarian military
intervention overseas.
The Cuban Speech follows history's winding and twisting path as
the United States went to war in early 1898 behind a Vermont Yankee
of few words.
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