Description: Historian Orville Vernon Burton suggests that, while abolishing slavery was the ages most extraordinary accomplishment, its most profound achievement was the redefining of freedom as a personal right to be expanded to all Americans.
Brief description:
Rich Mock began his career in voice artistry in 1995, having since recorded numerous regional and national commercial radio spots. Age of Lincoln is his first audiobook for Blackstone Audio, inaugurating what he hopes will be a long-term path in audiobook narration.
Review Quotes:
"The Age of Lincoln offers a major reinterpretation of nineteenth-century American history from the age of Jackson to the Progressive era. Professor Burton portrays Lincoln as a product of his time and the Southern yeoman culture in which he grew up; and in turn he shows how Lincoln's ideas, so essential for Northern victory in the war, affected the way Americans defined themselves in the postwar generation. Filled with fresh insights, The Age of Lincoln should open a new era in Civil War-Reconstruction scholarship."
-- "David Herbert Donald, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Lincoln"