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Book

Lincoln vs. Davis : the war of the presidents

Call Number

  • 973.7 H2194 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024

Physical Description

xix, 777 pages, 16 pages unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps (black & white), portraits ; 25 cm

Summary

"From the New York Times bestselling presidential biographer comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance--and how Abraham Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last, best chance to save the Union"--

Contents

  • The rivals
  • Fort Sumter
  • The fog of war
  • Bull Run
  • The road not taken
  • Winter of discontent
  • War on the peninsula
  • Harrison's landing
  • The end of the rope
  • The hundred days
  • Epilogue: The angel of liberty.

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