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On the eve of an arranged marriage to a woman he doesnt love, nineteen-year-old Jacob Rappaport flees home to join the Union army and the fight against slavery.
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Life change events, Jews, Fiction, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Ethics, Jewish soldiers, History, Fiction, historical, Jews, fiction, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Fiction, espionage, Large type books, NEW LIST 20090400, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, thrillers, espionagePlaces
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Originally published: 2009.
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A gripping epic about the great moral struggles of the Civil War.
How is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, it is a question his commanders have answered for him: on Passover in 1862 he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln.
After that night, will Jacob ever speak for himself? The answer comes when his commanders send him on another mission—this time not to murder a spy but to marry one.
A page-turner rich with romance and the history of America (North and South), this is a book only Dara Horn could have written. Full of in-sight and surprise, layered with meaning, it is a brilliant parable of the moral divide that still haunts us: between those who value family first and those dedicated, at any cost, to social and racial justice for all.
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