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    Rise and Fall: The Life and Legacy of Jefferson Davis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 136min
    Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) holds a unique place in American history, as the man best remembered for being the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War. While other famous Confederates like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are still celebrated across the reunited country, Davis continues to be the object of scorn, derided over his attempt to flee after the Civil War and criticized as ineffective by historians. Among the Confederates still lauded among some Southerners, Davis is well down the list. Given his Civil War legacy, which often obscures his antebellum and postwar life, it's easy to forget why Davis was made president in the first place. As a career civil servant in the United States government during much of his adult life, both as a Senator and Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis was a natural choice to be elected President of the seceding Southern states in early 1861. History has accorded Abraham Lincoln a spot in the pantheon of American politics for the manner in which he steered the Union to victory and into the Reconstruction period after the war. In turn, Davis has been heavily criticized. Davis constantly clashed with Confederate generals like Joseph Johnston, the South's diplomacy failed to obtain foreign intervention, and he was unable to keep the Southern states together cohesively as the Confederate economy began to collapse. Whether the Civil War would have ended any differently with someone else in charge of the Confederacy will never be known, but Davis had a tumultuous presidency. Making matters worse, when Davis was captured by Union troops in May 1865, rumors spread that he was trying to escape in women's clothing. Davis was accused of treason and held prisoner for a few years before he was released, living out the rest of his years in the South. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Alda. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/039543/bk_acx0_039543_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 620min
    The vivid history of Beale Street - a lost world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams, and ruthless politicians - and the battle for the soul of Memphis. Following the Civil War, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, violence and passion. But out of this turmoil emerged a center of black progress, optimism, and cultural ferment. Preston Lauterbach tells this vivid, fascinating story through the multigenerational saga of a family whose ambition, race pride, and moral complexity indelibly shaped the city that would loom so large in American life. Robert Church, who would become "the South's first black millionaire," was a mulatto slave owned by his white father. Having survived a deadly race riot in 1866, Church constructed an empire of vice in the booming river town. He made a fortune with saloons, gambling, and - shockingly - white prostitution. But he also nurtured the militant journalism of Ida B. Wells and helped revolutionize American music through the work of composer W. C. Handy, the man who claimed to have invented the blues. In the face of Jim Crow, the Church fortune helped fashion the most powerful black political organization of the early 20th century. Robert and his son, Bob, Jr., bought and sold property, founded a bank, and created a park and auditorium for their people finer than the places whites had forbidden them to attend. However, the Church family operated through a tense arrangement with the Democrat machine run by the notorious E. H. "Boss" Crump, who stole elections and controlled city hall. The battle between this black dynasty and the white political machine would define the future of Memphis. Brilliantly researched and swiftly plotted, Beale Street Dynasty offers a captivating account of one of America's iconic cities - by one of our most talented narrative historians. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022799/bk_adbl_022799_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The South in the building of the nation
    The South in the building of the nation ab 28.49 € als Taschenbuch: a history of the southern states designed to record the South's part in the making of the American nation; to portray the character and genius to chronicle the achievements and progress and to illustrate the life. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The South in the building of the nation
    The South in the building of the nation ab 30.99 € als Taschenbuch: a history of the southern states designed to record the South's part in the making of the American nation; to portray the character and genius to chronicle the achievements and progress and to illustrate the life. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The South in the building of the nation
    The South in the building of the nation ab 27.49 € als Taschenbuch: a history of the southern states designed to record the South's part in the making of the American nation; to portray the character and genius to chronicle the achievements and progress and to illustrate the life. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The South in the building of the nation
    The South in the building of the nation ab 27.99 € als Taschenbuch: a history of the southern states designed to record the South's part in the making of the American nation; to portray the character and genius to chronicle the achievements and progress and to illustrate the life. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The South in the building of the nation
    The South in the building of the nation ab 27.99 € als Taschenbuch: a history of the southern states designed to record the South's part in the making of the American nation; to portray the character and genius to chronicle the achievements and progress and to illustrate the life. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The South in the building of the nation
    The South in the building of the nation ab 27.49 € als Taschenbuch: a history of the southern states designed to record the South's part in the making of the American nation; to portray the character and genius to chronicle the achievements and progress and to illustrate the life. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The South in the building of the nation
    The South in the building of the nation ab 33.99 € als Taschenbuch: a history of the southern states designed to record the South's part in the making of the American nation; to portray the character and genius to chronicle the achievements and progress and to illustrate the life. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The South in the building of the nation
    The South in the building of the nation ab 31.49 € als Taschenbuch: a history of the southern states designed to record the South's part in the making of the American nation; to portray the character and genius to chronicle the achievements and progress and to illustrate the life. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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