{"product_id":"summon-the-angels-ruth-ochs-webster-9798394787324","title":"Summon the Angels","description":"Kentucky 1871\u003cp\u003eFor Confederate cavalryman Francis \"Marion\" Allender the late War of Rebellion has never truly ended. He still identifies as a member of Morgan's Raiders, the guerilla band headed by the legendary Kentucky general. He is greeted with warmth and adulation by some, with loathing and suspicion from the rest--depending upon their political views--and it seeps into every aspect of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a new decade dawns, there's a dangerous battle that veterans from both sides will be forced to fight. A battle with no clear objectives, strategies, or marching orders. A battle without even a clearly defined enemy. In Marion's case, his enemy often feels uncomfortably close--his cousin Eliza and her Yankee husband, Corporal Jesse J. Cook. Jesse is a staunch Republican to Marion's Democrat, and Eliza (though blood), harbors a strangely personal vendetta.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarion and Jesse are thrust together by circumstance and should pool their considerable talents and resolve for the sake of the family. But can they?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDanger lurks everywhere. In the dark, from the Ku-Klux-Klan. In the halls of power at the hands of corrupt politicians. In the meeting rooms of opposing veterans' organizations. In the teeming ghettos of immigrants. And amid a financial panic with its shuttered businesses, failed banks, collapsing farm prices, bankrupt railroads, low wages, joblessness, and breadlines. And underlying it all looms the question of how to assimilate the freed black man into American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was not what soldiers expected after marching home. They wanted only to expand their businesses, grow their farms, love a good woman, father babies, ride to hounds or bet on horses, shoot, hunt, fish, play cards, and raise a glass to the nation's second century and its prosperity.\u003c\/p\u003eThey did not expect, ever again, to seek \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe better angels of their nature.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth Ochs Webster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8394787320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798394787324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.17d","brand":"Ruth Ochs Webster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44213046247679,"sku":"9798394787324","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f78d9a20-ddc3-4182-8956-b2c53a32bd89.jpg?v=1692111755","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/summon-the-angels-ruth-ochs-webster-9798394787324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}