Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals - Hardcoverby Bill Wasik (Author), Monica Murphy (Author) A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best selling authors of Rabid Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals' suffering had rarely been discussed; horses pulling carriages and carts were routinely beaten in public view, and