MHML00-25 Martha Hodes - Mourning Lincoln.nfo
General Information
===================
Title: Mourning Lincoln
Author: Martha Hodes
Read By: Donna Postel
Copyright: 2015
Audiobook Copyright: 2015
Genre: Nonfiction - History
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
==========================
Media: Digital
Source: OneClick MP3
File Information
================
Number of MP3s: 25
Total Duration: 12:27:08
Total MP3 Size: 258.21
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 48 kbit/s 32000 Hz Mono
Normalize: None
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
================
Publisher's Summary
Through deep and thoughtful exploration of diaries, letters, and other
personal writings penned during the spring and summer of 1865, Martha
Hodes, one of our finest historians, captures the full range of reactions
to the president's death - far more diverse than public expressions
would suggest. She tells a story of shock, glee, sorrow, anger, blame,
and fear.
"'Tis the saddest day in our history," wrote a mournful man. It was
"an electric shock to my soul", wrote a woman who had escaped from slavery.
"Glorious News!" a Lincoln enemy exulted. "Old Lincoln is dead, and
I will kill the goddamned Negroes now", an angry white Southerner ranted.
For the black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts, it was all "too overwhelming,
too lamentable, too distressing" to absorb.
There are many surprises in the story Hodes tells, not least the way
in which even those utterly devastated by Lincoln's demise easily interrupted
their mourning rituals to attend to the most mundane aspects of everyday
life. There is also the unexpected and unabated virulence of Lincoln's
Northern critics and the way Confederates simultaneously celebrated
Lincoln's death and instantly - on the very day he died - cast him as
a fallen friend to the defeated white South.
Hodes brings to life a key moment of national uncertainty and confusion,
when competing visions of America's future proved irreconcilable and
hopes for racial justice in the aftermath of the Civil War slipped from
the nation's grasp. Hodes masterfully brings the tragedy of Lincoln's
assassination alive in human terms - terms that continue to stagger
and rivet us 150 years after the event they so strikingly describe.
arrangement with Martha Hodes, c/o The Strothman Agency. (P)2015 HighBridge,
a division of Recorded Books
What the Critics Say
"Beautiful and terrible, Hodes' marvelously written story of the assassination
fills the mind, heart and soul. People never forgot the event; this
book is a page-turner that makes it all unforgettable again as it also
explains how one shocking death illuminated so many others." (David
W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory)
"There are many books on the Lincoln assassination and the public response
to it. But Martha Hodes' work is the first to focus in great detail
on the responses of ordinary individuals, Northern and Southern, white
and black, soldiers and civilians, women and men, in their diaries and
personal correspondence, and to blend such response into the larger
story of public events. The amount of research is simply staggering.
This is a highly original, lucidly written, book." (James M. McPherson,
author of Battle Cry of Freedom)
"Mourning Lincoln is an original and important book that traces various
reactions to Lincoln's assassination. Through extensive research, Martha
Hodes has discovered voices that are both moving and surprising. The
result is an illuminating work that allows us for the first time to
understand fully the meaning of Lincoln's death at the time." (Louis
P. Masur, author of Lincoln's Hundred Days)
|
|