• 1824

  • The Arkansas War (Trail of Glory)
  • By: Eric Flint
  • Narrated by: Franklin Pierson
  • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (27 ratings)

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By: Eric Flint
Narrated by: Franklin Pierson
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In the newest volume of this exhilarating series, Eric Flint continues to reshape American history, imagining how a continent and its people might have taken a different path to its future. With 1824: The Arkansas War, he spins an astounding and provocative saga of heroism, battlefield action, racial conflict, and rebellion as a nation recovering from war is plunged into a dangerous era of secession.

Buffered by Spanish possessions to the south and by free states and two rivers to the north, Arkansas has become a country of its own: a hybrid confederation of former slaves, Native American Cherokee and Creek clans, and white abolitionists—including one charismatic warrior who has gone from American hero to bête noire. Irish-born Patrick Driscol is building a fortune and a powerful army in the Arkansas Confederacy, inflaming pro-slavers in Washington and terrifying moderates as well. Caught in the middle is President James Monroe, the gentlemanly Virginian entering his final year in office with a demagogic House Speaker, Henry Clay, nipping at his heels and fanning the fires of war. But Driscol, whose black artillerymen smashed both the Louisiana militia in 1820 and the British in New Orleans, remains a magnet for revolution. And fault lines are erupting throughout the young republic—so that every state, every elected official, and every citizen will soon be forced to choose a side.

For a country whose lifeblood is infected with the slave trade, the war of 1824 will be a bloody crisis of conscience, politics, economics, and military maneuvering that will draw in players from as far away as England. For such men as Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Sam Houston, charismatic war hero Andrew Jackson, and the violent abolitionist John Brown, it is a time to change history itself.

Filled with fascinating insights into some of America’s most intriguing historical figures, 1824: The Arkansas War confirms Eric Flint as a true master of alternate history, a novelist who brings to bear exhaustive research, remarkable intuition, and a great storyteller’s natural gifts to chronicle the making of our nation as it might have been.

©2022 Eric Flint (P)2022 Recorded Books

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Eric Flint shows how knowing history allows all of to grow but is so very entertaining.
That may sound dry but he has made it more entertaining and real than any video game

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Indescribable !

I’ve read this book . Yet being able to relax and listen is so much better . This book is much better if you have had a chance to accumulate the knowledge of the character’s in it from historical books and movies .

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Very well written

I am becoming a fan of mr Flint, very entertaining, and extremely well written, the only thing is you might have to be a little well versed in history to get the full affect of the story

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