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Title: Madness Rules the Hour
Subtitle: Charleston, 1860, and the Mania for War
Author: Paul Starobin
Narrator: Kevin Stillwell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-27-17
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
"The tea has been thrown overboard - the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." (Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860)
In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently attached to slavery, and no city was seen by the North as a greater threat to the bonds barely holding together the Union. And so, with Abraham Lincoln's election looming, Charleston's leaders faced a climactic decision: They could submit to abolition - or they could drive South Carolina out of the Union and hope that the rest of the South would follow.
In Madness Rules the Hour, Paul Starobin tells the story of how Charleston succumbed to a fever for war and charts the contagion's relentless progress and bizarre turns. In doing so he examines the wily propagandists, the ambitious politicians, the gentlemen merchants and their wives and daughters, the compliant pastors, and the white workingmen who waged a violent and exuberant revolution in the name of slavery and Southern independence. They devoured the Mercury, the incendiary newspaper run by a fanatical father and son; made holy the deceased John C. Calhoun; and adopted "Le Marseillaise" as a rebellious anthem. Madness Rules the Hour is a portrait of a culture in crisis and an insightful investigation into the folly that fractured the Union and started the Civil War.
Critic Reviews:
"A dramatic and engaging addition to Civil War studies that serves as a fitting bookend paired with Jay Winik's account of the end of the war, April 1865 (2001)." (Kirkus Reviews)
"'South Carolina is too small for a Republic,' wrote James Petigru in 1860, 'but too large for an insane asylum.' Starobin has skillfully chronicled the mass psychology in favor of secession that built to a climax after Lincoln's election and led the state out of the Union." (James M. McPherson, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom)
"Starobin's narrative is readable and lively; he is skilled at creating setting and character description. Recommended for those interested in the Civil War and its causes." (Library Journal)
Members Reviews:
Very interesting
I loved this book. The recording was quite good as well.
It is a fascinating dive into the story about the men in Charleston who engineered disunion with full knowledge they were probably starting a Civil War.
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Title: Madness Rules the Hour
Subtitle: Charleston, 1860, and the Mania for War
Author: Paul Starobin
Narrator: Kevin Stillwell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-27-17
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
"The tea has been thrown overboard - the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." (Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860)
In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently attached to slavery, and no city was seen by the North as a greater threat to the bonds barely holding together the Union. And so, with Abraham Lincoln's election looming, Charleston's leaders faced a climactic decision: They could submit to abolition - or they could drive South Carolina out of the Union and hope that the rest of the South would follow.
In Madness Rules the Hour, Paul Starobin tells the story of how Charleston succumbed to a fever for war and charts the contagion's relentless progress and bizarre turns. In doing so he examines the wily propagandists, the ambitious politicians, the gentlemen merchants and their wives and daughters, the compliant pastors, and the white workingmen who waged a violent and exuberant revolution in the name of slavery and Southern independence. They devoured the Mercury, the incendiary newspaper run by a fanatical father and son; made holy the deceased John C. Calhoun; and adopted "Le Marseillaise" as a rebellious anthem. Madness Rules the Hour is a portrait of a culture in crisis and an insightful investigation into the folly that fractured the Union and started the Civil War.
Critic Reviews:
"A dramatic and engaging addition to Civil War studies that serves as a fitting bookend paired with Jay Winik's account of the end of the war, April 1865 (2001)." (Kirkus Reviews)
"'South Carolina is too small for a Republic,' wrote James Petigru in 1860, 'but too large for an insane asylum.' Starobin has skillfully chronicled the mass psychology in favor of secession that built to a climax after Lincoln's election and led the state out of the Union." (James M. McPherson, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom)
"Starobin's narrative is readable and lively; he is skilled at creating setting and character description. Recommended for those interested in the Civil War and its causes." (Library Journal)
Members Reviews:
Very interesting
I loved this book. The recording was quite good as well.
It is a fascinating dive into the story about the men in Charleston who engineered disunion with full knowledge they were probably starting a Civil War.