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Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president

its onetime commander

the army correspondents and journalists taken along for the ride

and Edmund Wilson hailed them as great literature

and others commercialized Civil War memory

Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (Jon Grinspan-CH) replica buildings Hailed as the definitive portraitby Jon Grinspan Excellent." Wall Street Journal A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes.