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Title:
Destiny of the Republic [sound recording] / Candice Millard.
ISBN:
9780307939654
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Edition:
Unabridged.
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Random House Audio, [2011]
℗2011
Physical Description:
8 audio discs (9 hr., 48 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Compact discs.
Title from disc label; subtitle from container.
Duration: 10:00:00.
Contents:
Prologue: Chosen -- Promise -- The scientific spirit -- Providence -- "A beam in darkness" -- God's minute man -- Bleak mountain -- War -- Hand and soul -- Real Brutuses and Bolingbrokes -- Brains, flesh, and blood -- Casus belli -- The dark dreams of presidents -- "A desperate deed" -- Fear -- "Thank God it is all over" -- "It's true" -- All evil consequences -- Blood-guilty -- Tortured for the republic -- Neither death nor life -- One nation -- "Keep heart" -- On a mountaintop, alone -- Terror, hope, and despair -- After all -- All the angels of the universe -- Forever and forever more.
Summary:
A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
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Performer:
Read by Paul Michael.
OCLC Number:
ocn699764721
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
