An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change.
The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce fight for nothing less than the country's soul. Beginning six decades before the Civil War, freedom-seeking blacks and courageous whites worked together to save tens of thousands of lives, often at the risk of great physical danger to themselves. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only challenged prevailing mores but also subverted federal law.
Meticulously researched and uncommonly engaging, Bound for Canaan shows why it was the Underground Railroad and not the civil rights movement that gave birth to this country's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change.
Author : Wen Ho Lee with Helen Zia
Narrator : Fred Stella
Publisher : Brilliance Audio Inc
Length : 11 hours 21 minutes
Type : American 20th Century Autobiography
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Wen Ho Lee, a patriotic American scientist born in Taiwan, had devoted almost his entire life to science and to helping improve U.S. defense capabilities. He loved his job at Los Alamos National... See full description...
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Author : James Reasoner
Narrator : Lloyd James
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 11 hours 30 minutes
Type : American
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This is the eighth book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one Southern family. Three Brannon brothers return home in the lull in the fighting, bu... See full description...
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Author : Sean Hannity
Narrator : Sean Hannity
Publisher : Harper Collins US
Length : 6 hours
Type : American 21st Century
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As Americans face the ongoing war against terrorists and their state sponsors around the world, Sean Hannity reminds us we must also cope with the continuing scourge of accommodation and cowardice... See full description...
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Author : Abraham Lincoln
Narrator : George Vafiadis
Publisher : In Audio
Length : 2 hours 50 minutes
Type : Royalty and Heads of State American Pre 1900 Biographical
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Lincoln comes alive through the reading of his letters. Audio Best of the Year - Publishers Weekly, 10 BEST - Library Journal See full description...
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