Monday, July 9 through Friday, July 13. Read by Norman Gilliland.
Seven years of research went into this detailed biography of this commander-in-chief and defender of equal rights in post-Civil War America.
(Random House; ISBN-10: 1400069025)
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THEME: “The Voices That Are Gone” by Stephen Foster and “Just Before the Battle, Mother” by Root, plus “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”. Performed by Trevor Stephenson, piano, on the Light & Shadow label
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