本杰明·富兰克林·巴特勒：喧闹无畏的生活[有声读物]

本杰明·富兰克林·巴特勒（Benjamin Franklin Butler）是内战和重建时期最重要、最有争议的军事和政治领导人之一。巴特勒最常被人铭记的是他在战争期间对新奥尔良联邦占领的毫不妥协的管理，在这个生动的故事中，巴特勒作为一个经历了从童年的贫困走向富裕，并在州和国家权力大厅产生了深远影响的人重新出现。获奖传记作家伊丽莎白·D·伦纳德（Elizabeth D.Leonard）记述了巴特勒在维护洛厄尔磨坊女孩和其他工人权利的法律方面的成功职业生涯，他作为亚伯拉罕·林肯（Abraham Lincoln）的主要文职将领之一所取得的成就，以及他在制定战时政策以支持奴隶制逃犯方面所起的作用。
莱纳德还强调了巴特勒的个人和政治演变，揭示了他对种族主义和奴隶制恐怖的有限理解是如何随着时间的推移而转变的，使他成为美国战后黑人自由和民权的最重要倡导者之一，也是白人至上和新邦联复兴的著名反对者之一。巴特勒本人声称他“在战斗中总是和弱者在一起”莱纳德细致的肖像将有助于听众评估这些说法，剥离几代人之前的假设和刻画，为一个重要人物提供一个确定的生活。
Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life [Audiobook]
Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administration of the federal occupation of New Orleans during the war, Butler reemerges in this lively narrative as a man whose journey took him from childhood destitution to wealth and profound influence in state and national halls of power. Prize-winning biographer Elizabeth D. Leonard chronicles Butler’s successful career in the law defending the rights of the Lowell Mill girls and other workers, his achievements as one of Abraham Lincoln’s premier civilian generals, and his role in developing wartime policy in support of slavery’s fugitives as the nation advanced toward emancipation.
Leonard also highlights Butler’s personal and political evolution, revealing how his limited understanding of racism and the horrors of slavery transformed over time, leading him into a postwar role as one of the nation’s foremost advocates for Black freedom and civil rights, and one of its notable opponents of white supremacy and neo-Confederate resurgence. Butler himself claimed he was “always with the underdog in the fight.” Leonard’s nuanced portrait will help listeners assess such claims, peeling away generations of previous assumptions and characterizations to provide a definitive life of a consequential man.

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