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Civil War Two: Part 1
President Joshua Maccabee Jennings has just taken office, vowing to Make America Christian Again.
When a Supreme Court Justice dies unexpectedly, the government falls into crisis, and the secular states start seceding, forming the Coalition of Secular States of America. President Jennings declares war to stop America's dissolution--no matter what the consequences.
The new Civil War will be like nothing America has faced before.
And in Part 2, find out America's fate.
When a Supreme Court Justice dies unexpectedly, the government falls into crisis, and the secular states start seceding, forming the Coalition of Secular States of America. President Jennings declares war to stop America's dissolution--no matter what the consequences.
The new Civil War will be like nothing America has faced before.
And in Part 2, find out America's fate.
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412 pages, Paperback
Published May 8, 2018
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Randall Collins
59 books106 followers Dr. Randall Collins is an American sociologist who has been influential in both his teaching and writing. He has taught in many notable universities around the world and his academic works have been translated into various languages. Collins is currently Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a leading contemporary social theorist whose areas of expertise include the macro-historical sociology of political and economic change; micro-sociology, including face-to-face interaction;and the sociology of intellectuals and social conflict. He has devoted much of his career and research to study society, how is it created and destroyed through emotional behaviors of human beings. He is considered to be one of the leading non-Marxist conflict theorists in the United States, and served as the president of the American Sociological Association from 2010 to 2011.
Dr. Collins' first position in academia was at UC Berkeley, followed by many other universities including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed by the UC San Diego, the University of Virginia, then UC Riverside, and finally the University of Pennsylvania. He took intermittent breaks from academia, as a novelist, and as a freelance scholar. He has also been a visiting professor at Chicago, Harvard, and Cambridge, as well as various schools in Europe, Japan, and China. Collins has published almost one hundred articles since finishing his undergraduate education. He has also written and contributed to several books with a range of topics such as the discovery of society to the sociology of marriage and family life.
Dr. Collins grew up in a slew of different cities and countries, his father being a diplomat (and possible spy) with the US State Department during the Cold War. They lived in Germany immediately following World War II, and later in Moscow, among other places such as Uruguay.
Dr. Collins' first position in academia was at UC Berkeley, followed by many other universities including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed by the UC San Diego, the University of Virginia, then UC Riverside, and finally the University of Pennsylvania. He took intermittent breaks from academia, as a novelist, and as a freelance scholar. He has also been a visiting professor at Chicago, Harvard, and Cambridge, as well as various schools in Europe, Japan, and China. Collins has published almost one hundred articles since finishing his undergraduate education. He has also written and contributed to several books with a range of topics such as the discovery of society to the sociology of marriage and family life.
Dr. Collins grew up in a slew of different cities and countries, his father being a diplomat (and possible spy) with the US State Department during the Cold War. They lived in Germany immediately following World War II, and later in Moscow, among other places such as Uruguay.
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June 16, 2018
I've never read a war story with all the battles like this. I found all the military acronyms hard to follow and it isn't practical to flip back to the glossary a dozen times per page.
The story itself is based on an interesting premise - the USA being split as it was in the Civil War, this time along the lines of Christian conservatives vs. liberals. Unfortunately, as divided as this country has become, it doesn't seem that far-fetched. Right now, Congress can't get anything done because they can't agree on anything. The scary thing is I think the majority of the people fall in-between the two extremes and would be choosing between two sides where they don't agree with either.
The viewpoint of the author is unknown. He does a great job of being completely neutral. There is no right or wrong side, good guys or bad guys. It is simply a telling of what is happening, like an impartial reporter would write.
Even though I'm not in love with the story, and find it somewhat difficult to plow through, I will read the second part of the story simply because I want to see how the author chooses to resolve the dilema.
The story itself is based on an interesting premise - the USA being split as it was in the Civil War, this time along the lines of Christian conservatives vs. liberals. Unfortunately, as divided as this country has become, it doesn't seem that far-fetched. Right now, Congress can't get anything done because they can't agree on anything. The scary thing is I think the majority of the people fall in-between the two extremes and would be choosing between two sides where they don't agree with either.
The viewpoint of the author is unknown. He does a great job of being completely neutral. There is no right or wrong side, good guys or bad guys. It is simply a telling of what is happening, like an impartial reporter would write.
Even though I'm not in love with the story, and find it somewhat difficult to plow through, I will read the second part of the story simply because I want to see how the author chooses to resolve the dilema.
April 5, 2019
This novel took me a LONG while to get through, it wasn't that it was boring, it was simply just hard to get through. The author has a good concept on what could possibly happen to the United States in the future with the possibility of the U.S.A. splitting itself just like in the 1st Civil War because of the drastic differences in beliefs and politics (church and state). It's a scary thought but it could happen. The author does a good job on not taking sides and views each side equally. All I can really say is that it's an interesting concept.
I'm going to read Civil War Two: Part 2 because I'm curious in reading how the author sees this ending.
I'm going to read Civil War Two: Part 2 because I'm curious in reading how the author sees this ending.
May 19, 2018
I almost never enjoy war books: not enough character development, too much like an action movie, too depressing, too formulaic/predictable, and/or lacking in psychological depth or insight. But I enjoyed the Hell out of Civil War Two.
It's not a "political book", in the sense that it doesn't take sides. You could enjoy and learn from this book no matter how you lean ideologically. It doesn't exaggerate the sympathetic or unsympathetic qualities of the characters on any side, and it's not anyone's fantasy of what "should" happen-- who should get blown up, who should win. It doesn't have an agenda of making you angry at anyone, or to preach to the converted. Instead, it simply asks: "What might happen if we have another civil war?" Professor Collins uses the best insights from history and the social sciences to depict a probable scenario.
The whole thing reads like a movie-- you can picture it shot by shot. HBO and Netflix should take notice.
It's not a "political book", in the sense that it doesn't take sides. You could enjoy and learn from this book no matter how you lean ideologically. It doesn't exaggerate the sympathetic or unsympathetic qualities of the characters on any side, and it's not anyone's fantasy of what "should" happen-- who should get blown up, who should win. It doesn't have an agenda of making you angry at anyone, or to preach to the converted. Instead, it simply asks: "What might happen if we have another civil war?" Professor Collins uses the best insights from history and the social sciences to depict a probable scenario.
The whole thing reads like a movie-- you can picture it shot by shot. HBO and Netflix should take notice.
June 30, 2018
Collins provides a frighteningly realistic view of the near future of the United States. In essence examining what would happen when church and state are no longer separate and the destruction of religious freedom leads to civil war.
June 15, 2018
I won this in a Goodreads giveaway.
This is ok but the premise that a civil war would occur with battles that mirror the Civil War was a bit simplistic.
This is ok but the premise that a civil war would occur with battles that mirror the Civil War was a bit simplistic.
June 30, 2018
This is by far the most imaginative near-future speculative fiction I’ve read. The science fiction aspects, blended like blots of color with the genius parallels to the first Civil War, are truly fascinating, if chilling. The characters come alive with a clever deft. Must read for anyone interested in AI, or the nature of a nation divided to the point of brother-versus-brother warf
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