My son has an assignment to find a novel that is comparable to Farenheit 911 but written in the civil war period or pre-civil war period. I tried to use Les Miserables but it has to be American history. any suggestions??
2007-11-02 08:53:32 · 5 answers · asked by Lisa G 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The only novel I can think of that would have possibly sent a message similar to Fahrenheit 9/11 would be Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher-Stowe.
2007-11-02 08:57:09 · answer #1 · answered by Kemp the Mad African 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the viewpoint of Lincoln's Republicans it was totally worth it. Their goal of centralizing power in the hands of the federal government succeeded along with a complete elimination of all political opposition through the period of reconstruction. Lincolns goal was never to free the slaves. He was a bigot who despised being in the presence of blacks and opposed slave holding in the new territories in an effort to keep blacks out of areas he wanted to be reserved for whites. For the South it was worth fighting for those lost states rights. The states will never get those powers back after the civil war amendments and their expansion during the years of the FDR courts. Few can understand the war today because it involves an understanding of state's rights and the federal system that is foreign to us after all of the changes this country has seen. People would rather have a government handout than liberty. Social and corporate welfare is a way for the federal government to take the property and liberties of citizens and redistribute them like in a socialist system. But these have been commonplace since the days of the new deal and we do see that the South was fighting for the preservation of the constitution that Hamilton, Lincoln, FDR, and Obama have destroyed.
2016-05-27 02:01:06 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try "The red badge of courage" written by a fourteen year old Army (northern) man, who enlisted in the war to find adventure, later wrote the book on the horrors of war.
2007-11-03 00:18:31 · answer #3 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The book Gangs of New York was based on touches on that kind of stuff (mostly via the sections on the draft riots).
2007-11-02 09:04:44 · answer #4 · answered by Showtunes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DUH! Farnheit 911 is a Fantasy Novel not a era of Civil war tyvm! oh i would recommend Cats Craddle it is a good book but not based on Civil war. Who Comes with Cannons? is a good book but 181 pages. and it's pretty good but not that good
2007-11-02 11:24:35 · answer #5 · answered by Adrianna B 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋