Peter S. Canellos
Autor von Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy
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Peter S. Canellos is an award-winning writer and former editorial page editor of The Boston Globe and executive editor of Politico. He is the editor of the New York Times bestseller, Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy.
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(Available as Print: ©6/8/2021; PAGES: 624; Unabridged.)
(Available as Digital: Yes)
*This version: Audio : ©6/8/2021; (ISBN 9781797124896) DURATION: 19:23:00; Unabridged
Other media: I don’t think so—not yet at least.
SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
The well told primary story here is John Marshall Harlan’s, but there are multiple substories that are also very interesting and important.
Justice Harlan is well known in the legal community for such lone dissents as Plessy vs. Ferguson, but while many of us know something of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., a fellow Justice; not as many know much of Justice Harlan. This book quite admirably seeks to rectify that.
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021 award winner, though lengthy; this book is well worth reading.
AUTHOR:
Peter S. Canellos. From the author’s website, peterscanellos.com, “Peter S. Canellos is the author of The Great Dissenter: The story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero, the profound tale of how a former slave owner – with the help of a once-enslaved man who grew up alongside him and was believed to be his half-brother – changed American law. A current editor at POLITICO, former editorial page editor of The Boston Globe, and editor of the New York Times bestseller Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy, Peter has harbored an interest in Harlan since his days at Columbia Law School three decades ago.
The Great Dissenter captures a huge swath of history, from aristocratic pre-Civil War Kentucky, to Cincinnati at the height of the Underground Railroad, to the famed horse-racing grounds of Europe, to the velvet chambers of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. It gives readers a front-row seat for some of the greatest legal battles of all time – as Americans fight for civil rights and economic justice in the Gilded Age. And it shows how one man’s willingness to stand up to his colleagues reverberated for a century until his dissenting views – not those of the court’s majority – became the law of the land.”
NARRATOR:
Arthur Morey. According to arthurmoreyvoice.com, “Arthur Morey is a Golden Voice narrator. He grew up in Oregon, attended Harvard College and the University of Chicago. He has written and ghostwritten scripts, lyrics, and fiction. Several of his plays were produced in New York and Chicago. He toured northern Italy with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano as a singer-songwriter.
He was literary manager at Chicago’s Body Politic Theatre and taught writing, English and Comp Lit at Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago. At N.U Press he edited and revised Viola Spolin’s seminal books on improvisational theatre before working as a narrator he was managing editor of Renaissance Books in Los Angeles.
He has won over 25 AudioFile earphones awards and has worked on nine titles that were nominated for Audies.”
According to English-voice-over.fandom.com, other works that Arthur has done are:
“Audio Drama
Ender's Game: Alive (2013) - Dr. Lineberry, John Paul Wiggin
Audiobooks
A Headache in the Pelvis (2018) - Narration
Don't Know Much About the American Presidents (2012) - Narration
Ellison Wonderland (2015) - Narration
Fault Lines in the Constitution (2017) - Narration
First Sight (2013) - Narration
Good Trouble (2018) - Narration
Guardian Angels & Other Monsters (2018) - Narration
Legacy (2010) - Narration
Magic for Beginners (2014) - Narration
Mouthful of Birds (2019) - Narration
My Morning Routine (2018) - Narration
On Heaven and Earth (2013) - Narration
Our Father (2018) - Narration
Secret Ingredients (2007) - Narration
The Book of Swords (2017) - Narration
The Divorce Papers (2014) - Narration
The Hidden History of America at War (2015) - Narration
The Inquisitor's Tale (2016) - Narration
The Sea Beast Takes a Lover (2018) - Narration
The Tale of Tales (2016) - Narration
The Whore's Child (2011) - Narration
Vampires in the Lemon Grove (2013) - Narration
West of Eden (2016) - Narration
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (2012) - Narration
Your Own, Sylvia (2009) – Narration”
Initially, I was slightly troubled by inexact annunciation and diagnosed dental repairs that were interfering, but in a very short time it was the great intonations and overall good delivery that had my attention and only a very few times throughout the rest of the narration did I struggle with trying to work out what word had been said.
GENRE:
Non-Fiction; Biography; History
SUBJECTS:
Supreme Court; Justices; Civil Rights; Abolition; Dissenting Opinions; historical figures; civil war; slavery; law; United States
DEDICATION:
“For my mother and father”
SAMPLE QUOTATION: From Chapter One: “A Father’s Prophecy”
“John Marshall Harlan was born on the precipice; on the very hinge of a society splitting in half.
To the north of his hometown of Danville, Kentucky, an abolitionist wind was blowing after shocking reports of dozens of men, women, and children hacked and bludgeoned to death in the infamous Nat Turner slave rebellion less than two summers before Harlan’s birth on June 1, 1833.1 To the south, feelings were hardening in the opposite direction. Overseers wielded whips and chains to keep enslaved men and women in line, while statesmen moved to preserve and expand their states’ legal rights to handle their property in any way they deemed fit.
In Kentucky, all these views were stirring uneasily, making the state a crucible of the nation’s growing divide over slavery. All sides had stakes in Kentucky. It had large plantations surrounded by log slave cabins, but also many smaller farms with just and handful of enslaved men and women living in close contact with their masters. It had farms with no slaves, just hardworking families, and also, at the bottom of its social strata, a growing population of free Black laborers.2
Kentucky’s most admired political leader, Henry Clay, was silky of dress and smooth of voice. He was a wealthy slave owner who nonetheless supported clear limits on an institution he disliked but never disavowed.3 Clays views fit his state, if not his country. Ever since Kentucky had broken off from its aristocratic parent, Virginia, four decades earlier, the new state had cultivated it’s own distinct sense of pride and gentry, with original families like the Clays and the Harlans building nirvana in the bluegrass that they called “the Athens of the West.”4 A dispute over slavery wouldn’t just put Kentucky at odds with it neighbors but also with itself, casting its economic and social differences in a sharp and deadly relief. A national furor over slavery was poison to Kentucky’s marrow. That’s why Henry Clay dedicated his formidable political talent—the best of his generation, everyone agreed—to forging the compromises necessary to tamp down tensions within the state and across the nation.”
RATING:
5 stars. Well written and narrated.
STARTED READING – FINISHED READING
1/25/2022 – 2/24/2022… (mehr)