Freedom Road (American History Through Literature)

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Extually i hve not read about this book and now I really want to know about it. So do you mind ?

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Summary: Freedom Won and Lost - will we repeat this history in Iraq?
Review: I listened to this book on tape and it was moving and relevent to what is happening today in Iraq. A captive people were freed and fought for their freedom only to have the insurrectionists, the Klu Klux Klan in this book, return to power and harrass and oppress them. Black and white stood together opposing the KKK but are left unprotected as the US military pulled out of the south. One feels guiltly and angry for this action by our government.If one transfers those feeling to the plith of people in Iraq it leaves one calling for this history to not be repeated. Read this book and you will call for us to stay the course of freedom for all humanity.
A very moving story about a real historical event.

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Summary: Wonderful Book!
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. I have found books about the Civil War. This is one of the few books I read that deal with its after-math. It gives a well written illustration of the Reconstruction. The reader becomes the free slave, carpetbagger, poor white and bankrupt plantation owner. As each character meets Gideon Jackson each person discovers their importance in the development of humanity.

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Summary: WAIT a MINute!
Review: The Works of Howard Fast are incendiary,no doubt...Whether he rises into the sunlight of great literature, as does Steinbeck in works of a similar genre, or remains in the depths of vituperation, remains to be seen...The important thing to remember is, all of his characters and situations are strictly FICTIONAL and have nothing whatever to do with history, even those put forward as being historical! In "Spartacus", for example, his Spartacus is a man totally made up according to the Marxist scheme of things. With all the real sorrows to get excited about, why are we spending time on fictional ones? However, if you want the best of Fast, you need to read "The Hessian."

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Summary: Wonderful Book!
Review: THis book was my assignment for US History. At first, I thought it was going to be boring. But I just couldn't put it down after I started.After reading it , I had a better understanding to the difficulties of rebuilding the peaceful society between the blacks and white, especially under the presence if KKK.It is a truly touching and sad book.

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Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK
Review: To not feel emotion while reading this book is impossible. The reader falls in love with the main character, Gideon Jackson. His enemies become the reader's enemies. His struggles break the reader's heart, because they've grown so close to Gideon. The reader becomes angry, sad, and just upset at how the people and the America that so many people fought for, can just turn its back on these poor black slaves. The hatred and the evilness portrayed by the Klu Klux Klan is unbearable and the reader realizes how unfortunate these times were for the black American. So if you want a very dramatic, but historically true novel this is the number ONE choice!

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Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK
Review: To not feel emotion while reading this book is impossible. The reader falls in love with the main character, Gideon Jackson. His enemies become the reader's enemies. His struggles break the reader's heart, because they've grown so close to Gideon. The reader becomes angry, sad, and just upset at how the people and the America that so many people fought for, can just turn its back on these poor black slaves. The hatred and the evilness portrayed by the Klu Klux Klan is unbearable and the reader realizes how unfortunate these times were for the black American. So if you want a very dramatic, but historically true novel this is the number ONE choice!