Wide Awake by Jon Grinspan

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/131011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wide Awake Author: Jon Grinspan Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: mp3 Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins Release date: 05-14-24 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 20 ratings Genres: Wars & Conflicts Publisher's Summary: At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes--mostly working-class Americans in their twenties--became one of the largest, most spectacular, and most influential political movements in our history.