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Written by Clarence B. Carson - Audio book performed by Mary Woods - Unabridged Nonfiction - 7 CASSETTES

Publisher, Blackstone Audio Books (1993)

The third volume of a comprehensive six-volume set.

This work has been described by The Freeman as "Probably the best available survey history of the United States... Dr. Carson has formed a richly woven tapestry of events and the ideas that spawned them. For Carson, history is not merely a collection of facts and dates, an account of explorations, settlements, westward expansion, wars, presidents, and elections. History is the product of the actions of countless individuals, each under the influence of certain ideas. And Carson explores those ideas, ideologies, and 'isms.' He shows how they were responsible for the settlement of this continent, the struggle for freedom, the westward expansion, the construction of schools, churches, factories, and the founding of new religious denominations. He explains why our ancestors fought for their beliefs, and strove to create a government, limited in scope, with checks and balances, that would not have the power to oppress the people...."

Carson begins this third volume by diagnosing the root causes that eventually gave rise to sectionalism: regional differences and changes, the election of 1824, the Adams administration, and the emergence of two parties. From there the book covers a great deal of ground including:

the meaning of Jacksonian Democracy
the removal of the Indians
the nullification and bank controversies
the plantation system
the Transcendentalists and the development of American literature
the Public School movement
Westward expansion
the election of Lincoln
and finally, the Civil War