Publisher Description
Ten episodes from David Reynolds' award-winning radio series, which trace the history of the American Civil War. This narrative tells the story of the American Civil War through the voices of those who lived it. Written and presented by acclaimed historian David Reynolds, these extracts come from the series 'America: Empire of Liberty', which won the Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for the Best New Radio Programme and was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award.
The 10 episodes included are:
- The Ninety-Day War
- The Killers Take Command
- Forever Free
- A New Nation
- War Behind the Battle Lines
- The Passing of the Dead
- Dead States, New Birth
- Reunion but not Reconstruction
- New South, Old Ways
- War and Memory
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About David Reynolds
David Reynolds is a professor of international history and a fellow of Christ’s
College, Cambridge. He was awarded a scholarship to study at Dulwich College,
then Cambridge and Harvard universities. He received the Wolfson History Prize in
2004 and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2005. He teaches and lectures
at Cambridge University, specializing in the two world wars and the Cold War.
Since October 2013 he has been chairman of the history faculty at Cambridge. He is the author of ten books, including several on modern America and its relations with Europe. In
addition to his teaching and writing, he has made nine documentaries on
twentieth-century history for the BBC, including the award-winning radio drama America,
Empire of Liberty.