Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2024-07-24
Books mentioned on Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor is Tyler's pick for one of the greatest living historians. His many books cover the early American Republic, American westward expansion, the War of 1812, Virginian slavery, Thomas Jefferson, the revolutionary settlements in Maine, and more.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Jacksonian persuasion
Discussed“thinking about American history so that's not an important dimension of his one great book Jacksonian persuasion and so the role of American expansion into the West at the expense of native peoples is just what was not on his agenda”
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an influential 19th-century anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that dramatized the harsh realities of slavery and galvanized abolitionist sentiment in the United States.
Discussed“how good a novel is Uncle Tom's Cabin we know it's historically very very important but just to sit down and read it what should someone today think about it uh I wouldn't if you're looking for a good read today I would not recommend Uncle Tom's Cabin”
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