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by
John Jakes
Started reading
February 13, 2025
His God, growing more familiar and companionable by the hour, was a Deity who favored the brave man who didn’t shrink from the hard action.
To many Southerners, the word Ohio meant just one thing—the state containing Oberlin College, where white and black students defied convention by studying together as equals.
how strong was friendship? Could it banish disagreement over a fundamental issue of human liberty—as if the issue and the disagreement didn’t exist?
doughface—a Yankee with sympathy for the South.
beauty of a simpler, more substantial sort, compounded in part of the shy gentleness of her gaze and the kindness of her smile.
