How Long to Read The Union on Trial

How Long Does it Take to Read The Union on Trial?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 29 minutes to read The Union on Trial by William Barclay Napton

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Spanning some fifty-four years, The Union on Trial is a fascinating look at the journals that William Barclay Napton (1808¿1883), an editor, Missouri lawyer, and state supreme court judge, kept from his time as a student at Princeton to his death in Missouri. Although a northerner by birth, Napton, the owner or trustee of forty-six slaves, viewed American society through a decidedly proslavery lens. Focusing on events between the 1850s and 1870s, especially those associated with the Civil War and Reconstruction, The Union on Trial contains Napton's political reflections, offering thoughtful and important perspectives of an educated northern-cum-southern rightist on the key issues that turned Missouri toward the South during the Civil War era. Although Napton's journals offer provocative insights into the process of southernization on the border, their real value lies in their author's often penetrating analysis of the political, legal, and constitutional revolution that the Civil War generated. Yet the most obvious theme that emerges from Napton's journals is the centrality of slavery in Missourians' measure of themselves and the nation and, ultimately, in how border states constructed their southernness out of the tumultuous events of the era. Napton's impressions of the constitutional crises surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction offer essential arguments with which to consider the magnitude of the nation's most transforming conflict. The book also provides a revealing look at the often intensely political nature of jurists in nineteenth-century America. A lengthy introduction contextualizes Napton's life and beliefs, assessing his transition from northerner to southerner largely as a product of his political transformation to a proslavery, states' rights Democrat but also as a result of his marriage into a slaveholding family. Napton's tragic Civil War experience was a watershed in his southern evolution, a process that mirrored his state's transformation and one that, by way of memory and politics, ultimately defined both. Students and scholars of American history, Missouri history, and the Civil War will find this volume indispensable reading.

How long is The Union on Trial?

The Union on Trial by William Barclay Napton is 668 pages long, and a total of 172,344 words.

This makes it 225% the length of the average book. It also has 211% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Union on Trial Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 41 minutes to read The Union on Trial aloud.

What Reading Level is The Union on Trial?

The Union on Trial is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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