What to Read After The Radical and the Republican
Readers who loved The Radical and the Republican by James Oakes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Radical and the Republican is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Radical and the Republican
Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History)
Lincoln and Whitman
Hitler's thirty days to power
Blood on the Moon
The Lincoln-Douglas debates
Coming
Forever free
Half slave and half free
Inhuman bondage
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Embattled Rebel
The Gettysburg campaign
The radicalism of the American Revolution
American slavery, American freedom
1861
For Cause and Comrades
Gettysburg
Battle Cry of Freedom Part 1 of 3
The glorious cause
The Man Who Saved the Union
Landscape Turned Red
Reconstruction
April 1865
The Half Has Never Been Told