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  • What Hath God Wrought

  • The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
  • By: Daniel Walker Howe
  • Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
  • Length: 32 hrs and 50 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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What Hath God Wrought

By: Daniel Walker Howe
Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
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Publisher's Summary

Pulitzer Prize, History, 2008

In this addition to the esteemed Oxford History of the United States series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era of revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated America's expansion and prompted the rise of mass political parties.

He examines the rise of Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party but contends that John Quincy Adams and other advocates of public education, economic integration, and the rights of blacks, women, and Indians were the true prophets of America's future.

Howe's panoramic narrative - weaving together social, economic, and cultural history with political and military events - culminates in the controversial but brilliantly executed war against Mexico that gained California and Texas for America.

Please note: The individual volumes of the series have not been published in historical order. What Hath God Wrought is number V in The Oxford History of the United States.

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©2007 Oxford University Press, Inc. (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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"One of the most outstanding syntheses of U.S. history published this decade." ( Publishers Weekly)
"He is a genuine rarity: an English intellectual who not merely writes about the United States but actually understands it." ( Washington Post)
"A stunning synthesis....it is a rare thing to encounter a book so magisterial and judicious and also so compelling." ( Chicago Tribune)

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Fantastic and Comprehensive

David Walker Howe's 'What God Hath Wrought' provides a comprehensive exploration of American in the late anti-bellum era. Howe approaches his subject with a keen degree of empathy and understanding, carefully considering what drove not only the many individual actors of the era but also the larger forces shaping American society at the time. He tells the story fantastically, keeping you hooked the whole way through.

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