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James M. McPhersonPublication Details
BookPenguin Press2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E457.2 .M478 2008 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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James McPherson, a bestselling historian of the Civil War, illuminates how Lincoln worked with?and often against? In essence, Lincoln invented the idea of commander in chief, as neither the Constitution nor existing legislation specified how the president ought to declare war or dictate strategy. To be sure, the Union?s campaigns often went awry, sometimes horribly so, but McPherson makes clear how the missteps arose from the all-too-common moments when Lincoln could neither threaten nor cajole his commanders to follow his orders. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- 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
Contents
- The quest for a strategy, 1861
- The bottom is out of the tub
- You must act
- A question of legs
- Destroy the Rebel Army, if possible
- The promise must now be kept
- Lee’s Army, and not Richmond, is your true objective point
- The heaviest blow yet dealt to the rebellion
- If it takes three years more
- No peace without victory
ISBN
- 1594201919
- 9781594201912
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