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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xi, 79 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson provides an ideal short account of Lincoln--a compelling biography of a man of humble origins who preserved our nation during its greatest catastrophe and ended the scourge of slavery.
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 301 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy shows how Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force and, like no other chief executive in American history, exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xv, 329 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Description
Evaluates Lincoln's talents as a commander in chief in spite of limited military experience, tracing the ways in which he worked with, or against, his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and reshape the presidential role.
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