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The first volume of John Jakes's acclaimed and sweeping saga about a friendship threatened by the divisions of the Civil War
In the years leading up to the Civil War, one enduring friendship embodies the tensions of a nation. Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from Pennsylvania forge a lasting bond while training at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Together they fight in the Mexican-American War, but their closeness is tested as their regional politics diverge. As the first rounds are fired at Fort Sumter, Orry and George find themselves on different sides of the coming struggle. In John Jakes's unmatched style, North and South launches a trilogy that captures the fierce passions of a country at the precipice of disaster.
Norte y Sur es la emocionante y panorámica novela de dos acaudaladas familias norteamericanas durante los veinte agitados años que culminaron en la Guerra Civil. Son los Main, propietarios sureños de plantaciones en Carolina, que defienden con orgullo una forma de vida aristocrática; y los Hazard, industriales de Pennsylvania, descendientes de un fugitivo inglés y ahora inmersos en el mundo de los inventos y el comercio. Cuando sus dos hijos se encuentran como cadetes de West Point y se convierten en íntimos amigos, las vidas de ambas familias quedan unidas para siempre.
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Lover and friend has thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
--PSALM 88
...In future wars the Nation must look to the Academy for the skill to conduct valor to victory.
--SECRETARY JOHN C. CALHOUN TO SYLVANUS THAYER, SUPERINTENDENT, U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY 1818
Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to herself. She has uttered her testimony against slavery with a shriek ever since the monster was begotten; and till it perishes amidst the execrations of the universe, she will traverse the world on its track, dealing her bolts upon its head, and dashing against it her condemning brand.
--THEODORE DWIGHT WELD American Slavery As It Is 1839
If they break up, in God's name let the Union go ... I love the Union as I love wife. But if my wife should ask and insist upon a separation, she should have it though it broke my heart.
--JOHN QUINCY ADAMS On Burr's rumored secession conspiracy 1801
I tell you there is a fire. They have this day set a blazing torch to the temple of constitutional liberty, and, please God, we shall have no more peace forever.
-- LAWYER JAMES PETIGRU OF CHARLESTON, during the celebration of secession DECEMBER 20, 1860
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In memory of Jonathan Daniels - Islander, Southerner, American, Friend
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"The lad should take my name," Wisdom said after supper. "It's long past time."
Citas
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Slavery brings the judgement of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. George Mason of Virginia 1787
The first volume of John Jakes's acclaimed and sweeping saga about a friendship threatened by the divisions of the Civil War
In the years leading up to the Civil War, one enduring friendship embodies the tensions of a nation. Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from Pennsylvania forge a lasting bond while training at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Together they fight in the Mexican-American War, but their closeness is tested as their regional politics diverge. As the first rounds are fired at Fort Sumter, Orry and George find themselves on different sides of the coming struggle. In John Jakes's unmatched style, North and South launches a trilogy that captures the fierce passions of a country at the precipice of disaster.
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