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After Lincoln - How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace (Paperback): a J Langguth After Lincoln - How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace (Paperback)
a J Langguth
R692 R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Driven West - Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War (Paperback): a J Langguth Driven West - Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War (Paperback)
a J Langguth
R732 R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Save R78 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By the acclaimed author of the classic "Patriots "and "Union 1812, "this major work of narrative history portrays four of the most turbulent decades in the growth of the American nation.
After the War of 1812, President Andrew Jackson and his successors led the country to its manifest destiny across the continent. But that expansion unleashed new regional hostilities that led inexorably to Civil War. The earliest victims were the Cherokees and other tribes of the southeast who had lived and prospered for centuries on land that became Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.
Jackson, who had first gained fame as an Indian fighter, decreed that the Cherokees be forcibly removed from their rich cotton fields to make way for an exploding white population. His policy set off angry debates in Congress and protests from such celebrated Northern writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson. Southern slave owners saw that defense of the Cherokees as linked to a growing abolitionist movement. They understood that the protests would not end with protecting a few Indian tribes.
Langguth tells the dramatic story of the desperate fate of the Cherokees as they were driven out of Georgia at bayonet point by U.S. Army forces led by General Winfield Scott. At the center of the story are the American statesmen of the day--Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun--and those Cherokee leaders who tried to save their people--Major Ridge, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and John Ross.
"Driven West "presents wrenching firsthand accounts of the forced march across the Mississippi along a path of misery and death that the Cherokees called the Trail of Tears. Survivors reached the distant Oklahoma territory that Jackson had marked out for them, only to find that the bloodiest days of their ordeal still awaited them.
In time, the fierce national collision set off by Jackson's Indian policy would encompass the Mexican War, the bloody frontier wars over the expansion of slavery, the doctrines of nullification and secession, and, finally, the Civil War itself.
In his masterly narrative of this saga, Langguth captures the idealism and betrayals of headstrong leaders as they steered a raw and vibrant nation in the rush to its destiny.

Bliss (Hardcover): a J Langguth Bliss (Hardcover)
a J Langguth
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bliss (Paperback): a J Langguth Bliss (Paperback)
a J Langguth
R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Union 1812 - The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence (Paperback): a J Langguth Union 1812 - The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence (Paperback)
a J Langguth
R761 R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Save R78 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By the author of the acclaimed "Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution," a gripping narrative that tells the story of the second and final war of independence that secured the nation's independence from Europe and established its claim to the entire continent.

The War of 1812 has been ignored or misunderstood. "Union 1812" thrillingly illustrates why it must take its place as one of the defining moments in American history.

Hidden Terrors - The Truth About U.S. Police Operations in Latin America (Paperback): Mark Crispin Miller Hidden Terrors - The Truth About U.S. Police Operations in Latin America (Paperback)
Mark Crispin Miller; a J Langguth
R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A “devastating” exposé of the United States’ Latin American policy and the infamous career and assassination of agent Dan Mitrione (Kirkus Reviews). In 1960, former Richmond, Indiana, police chief Dan Mitrione moved to Brazil to begin a new career with the United States Agency for International Development. During his ten years with the USAID, Mitrione trained and oversaw foreign police forces in extreme counterinsurgency tactics—including torture—aimed at stomping out communism across South America. Though he was only a foot soldier in a larger secret campaign, he became a symbol of America’s brutal interventionism when he was kidnapped and executed by Tupamaro rebels in Montevideo, Uruguay.   In Hidden Terrors, former New York Times Saigon bureau chief A. J. Langguth chronicles with chilling detail Mitrione’s work for the USAID on the ground in South America and Washington, DC, where he shared his expertise. Along the way, Langguth provides an authoritative overview of America’s efforts to destabilize communist movements and prop up military dictators in South America, presenting a “powerful indictment of what the United States helped to bring about in this hemisphere” (The New York Times). Even today, the tactics Mitrione helped develop continue to influence operations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and black sites around the globe.  

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