TY  - SOUND
AU  - Kilmeade,Brian
TI  - The president and the freedom fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and their battle to save America's soul 
SN  - 9780593457122
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - [New York, NY]
PB  - Penguin Audio
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Douglass, Frederick,
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Biography
KW  - Abolitionists
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1849-1877
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Title from disc label; Compact discs; Read by the author
N2  - Abraham Lincoln was White, born impoverished on a frontier farm. Frederick Douglass was Black, a child of slavery who had risked his life escaping to freedom in the North. Neither man had a formal education, and neither had an easy path to influence. No one would have expected them to become friends, or to transform the country. But Lincoln and Douglass believed in their nation's greatness. They were determined to make the grand democratic experiment live up to its ideals. Lincoln's problem: he knew it was time for slavery to go, but how fast could the country change without being torn apart? And would it be possible to get rid of slavery while keeping America's Constitution intact? Douglass said no, that the Constitution was irredeemably corrupted by slavery, and he wanted Lincoln to move quickly. Sharing little more than the conviction that slavery was wrong, the two men's paths eventually converged. Over the course of the Civil War, they'd endure bloodthirsty mobs, feverish conspiracies, devastating losses on the battlefield, and a growing firestorm of unrest that would culminate on the fields of Gettysburg. As he did in George Washington's Secret Six, Kilmeade has transformed this nearly forgotten slice of history into a dramatic story that will keep you turning the pages to find out how these two heroes, through their principles and patience, not only changed each other, but made America truly free for all
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