Book · 2022 · History
Civil War by Other Means
America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
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The main case that you make in your new book Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy.
Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023 Listen at 0:30 What they say about it
- Discusses historical figures“spend a lot of time on in the book”2
- Focuses on post Civil War era“years after the Civil War”2
The best things said about it
One set of heroes I learned about writing this book that I didn't know about that I should have are more than one hundred thousand former slaves who become Union soldiers during the Civil War.
I talk about this in the book in Memphis in 1866 it is former Confederate soldiers and police officers.
His vice president who I spend a lot of time on in the book Andrew Johnson who is probably our worst president ever.
The history of the years after the Civil War that I focus on in this book has largely been written by the losers.
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Jeremi Suri so what I've written about in this book and in other books my book on Henry Kissinger for example is how it… 12
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“that's really what my book is about”
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“so what I've written about in this book and in other books my book on Henry Kissinger for example is how it's important when in an institution to still bring an outsider perspective”
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“and I write about that in this book”
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“and uh all the great leaders that I've studied some of whom are in this book some of whom are not right”
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“one set of Heroes I learned about writing this book that I didn't know about that I should have are uh more than one hundred thousand uh former slaves who become Union Soldiers during the Civil War”
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“it's the same debate it's why I wrote this book”
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“I talk about this in the book in Memphis in 1866 it is former Confederate soldiers and police officers”
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“there were a few mentioned in in the footnotes in my book here”
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“and one of the points I make in the book is we have to rethink that”
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“I quote this in the book”
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“his uh vice president who I spend a lot of time on in the book Andrew Johnson who is probably our worst president ever”
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“but it's very interesting the history of the years after the Civil War that I focus on in this book has largely been written by the losers”
Lex Fridman the the main case that you make in your new book Civil War by other means America's long and unfinished fig… 1
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“the the main case that you make in your new book Civil War by other means America's long and unfinished fight for democracy”
