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Lincoln and His Generals

By T. Harry Williams

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2011
ISBN
0307741966, 9780307741967
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
4 MB (4309426 bytes)
Series
Vintage Civil War Library
Pages
400\0
Time added
2013-12-21 17:56:11

Description

Since it was first published in 1952, Lincoln and His Generals has remained one of the definitive accounts of Lincoln’s wartime leadership. In it T. Harry Williams dramatizes Lincoln’s long and frustrating search for an effective leader of the Union Army and traces his transformation from a politician with little military knowledge into a master strategist of the Civil War. Explored in depth are Lincoln’s often fraught relationships with generals such as McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, Fremont, and of course, Ulysses S. Grant. In this superbly written narrative, Williams demonstrates how Lincoln’s persistent “meddling” into military affairs was crucial to the Northern war effort and utterly transformed the president’s role as commander-in-chief.

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