02248cam a2200349 i 4500 1262139888 TxAuBib 20240524120000.0 240521s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781639730643 HRD 32.00 1639730648 HRD 32.00 (OCoLC)1392045075 TxAuBib rda Grinspan, Jon. Wide awake [BOOK] : the forgotten force that elected Lincoln and spurred the Civil War / Jon Grinspan. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. ©2024. xviii, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes biographical references and index. "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. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes--mostly working-class Americans in their twenties--became one of the largest, most spectacular, and most influential political movements in our history. To some, it demonstrated the power of a rising majority to push back against slavery. To others, it looked like a paramilitary force training to invade the South. Within a year, the nation would be at war with itself, and many on both sides would point to the Wide Awakes as the mechanism that got them there.". 20240524. Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Influence. Political clubs United States 1815-1861. Political campaigns United States 1860. Presidents United States Election 1860. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes. United States Politics and government 1861-1865. United States Intellectual life 19th century.