{"product_id":"scorpions-sting-9780393351217","title":"Scorpions Sting","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offers the best explication of the long history by which Americans embraced the legitimacy of military emancipation, and it offers great insight into the debate over which took precedence: the natural right to property or the natural right to freedom.\" -- Ira Berlin - Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully argued and succeeds in telling us new things about a heavily explored topic.\" -- Mark M. Smith - Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eThe Scorpion’s Sting\u003c\/em\u003e, Oakes surveys the legal doctrines that enabled President Abraham Lincoln to envision and then enact the Emancipation Proclamation…[It] will lead readers to reflect on the degree to which international law might hold significant implications for the American system of government.\" -- Walter Russell Mead - Foreign Affairs\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant book that will force even the most veteran student of antebellum America to rethink previously held assumptions about emancipation.\" -- Erik J. Chaput - Providence Journal\u003cbr\u003e\"In four swift, clear strokes, James Oakes has rewritten the history of emancipation in the United States.\" -- Allen C. Guelzo\u003cbr\u003e\"If any reader still questions whether the Civil War was about slavery, this book overcomes all doubts.\" -- James McPherson\u003cbr\u003e\"Incisive, imaginative, surprising, completely original—everything that one would expect from the most eminent historian of emancipation.\" -- Eric J. Sundquist\u003cbr\u003e\"In clear prose and with searing insight, James Oakes recovers the moral urgency and strategic vision behind the Republican drive to undermine the slave system. A work of great depth and empathy.\" -- Alan Taylor","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401999720791,"sku":"9780393351217","price":15.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/scorpions-sting-9780393351217","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}