Throes of Democracy: America in the Civil War Era, 1829–1877

Walter A. McDougall

March 13, 2008/ Union League of Philadelphia

Walter A. McDougall is Co-chair of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers and Co-chair of FPRI’s Center for the Study of America and the West. He gave this BookTalk at the Union League of Philadelphia on March 13, 2008 on this second volume of a trilogy on the history of the United States.


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Fouad Ajami

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Al Qaeda and Jihadi Movements After Bin Laden
Christopher Swift

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Peter Bergen

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