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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (Jon Grinspan-CH) hospital Here for the first timeby Jon Grinspan Excellent." Wall Street Journal 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 themselves the Wide Awakes.