The Choice Not Made (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781979206198)

Vendor: William Brennan
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The Choice Not Made

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The Choice Not Made

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As the American Civil War winds down Bryson Moore, a prominent history professor at Union College in Schenectady, NY, meets with politically connected colleagues and shares his alarm that the competing plans for national reconstruction put forward by President Abraham Lincoln and radicals in Congress are seriously flawed. He suggests an alternative proposal that would partially bridge the difference between the alternatives. The president of Union College seizes on the idea and puts Moore in touch with Secretary of State William Seward, a Union Alumnus, who in turn arranges for Bryson to brief the president on the merits of his proposal vis-à-vis the two competing for national approval. In a pivotal meeting between Lincoln and Moore, the president confronts his very being in an existentialist crisis and realizes he must make a crucial choice among the options, none of which is ideal. Moore presses the president by indicating a failure to choose a new plan could result in decades of racial animus and anticipates many of the possibilities of Jim Crow laws. In this intense environment, an exhausted Lincoln demands time to make his choice, but even as he ponders his options a traitorous cabal is planning his assassination.

Author: William Brennan
ISBN-10: 1979206198
ISBN-13: 9781979206198
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2017
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.37d
By William Brennan
By William Brennan
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William Brennan is a retired federal executive whose career was highlighted by working for many years on the problems that rise out of the tension between the states and the federal government. On retirement, he was awarded the distinguished career award by the U.S. Department of Energy where he worked for the last twenty years of his career. Much of his experience is related to the subject matter of his seventh novel, The Choice Not Made, in which the conflicts between the states and regions of the country explode into the Civil War. Brennan was born and raised in an Irish neighborhood in the shoe factory city of Brockton, MA as the Industrial Revolution was abating in New England. He graduated from Boston University with a degree in history. His earlier novels examine the Irish American experience during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Brennan's seventh novel, The Choice Not Made, is his first not seen through the eyes of Irish Americans and is a broader examination of the Civil War and Reconstruction and Their impact on U.S. History. He resides with his wife in Virginia just outside of Washington, DC.

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