Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War - Hardcoverby Jon Grinspan (Author) "A gifted writer." Eric Foner, The Nation A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called