Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America write by William E. Gienapp. This book was released on 2002-04-08. Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, historian William Gienapp provides a remarkably concise, up-to-date, and vibrant biography of the most revered figure in United States history. While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War, Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early life, from pioneer farm boy to politician and lawyer in Springfield, to his stunning election as sixteenth president of the United States. Students will see how Lincoln grew during his years in office, how he developed a keen aptitude for military strategy and displayed enormous skill in dealing with his generals, and how his war strategy evolved from a desire to preserve the Union to emancipation and total war. Gienapp shows how Lincoln's early years influenced his skills as commander-in-chief and demonstrates that, throughout the stresses of the war years, Lincoln's basic character shone through: his good will and fundamental decency, his remarkable self-confidence matched with genuine humility, his immunity to the passions and hatreds the war spawned, his extraordinary patience, and his timeless devotion. A former backwoodsman and country lawyer, Abraham Lincoln rose to become one of our greatest presidents. This biography offers a vivid account of Lincoln's dramatic ascension to the pinnacle of American history.
The Civil War and Reconstruction
The Civil War and Reconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Civil War and Reconstruction write by William E. Gienapp. This book was released on 2001-01-01. The Civil War and Reconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An ample, wide-ranging collection of primary sources, The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection, opens a window onto the political, social, cultural, economic, and military history from 1830 to 1877.
Commander in Chief
Commander in Chief - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commander in Chief write by Geoffrey Perret. This book was released on 2007. Commander in Chief available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An award-winning presidential biographer and military historian explains that in choosing to fight un-winnable wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, Presidents Truman, Johnson, and George W. Bush collectively sought to establish a presidency so powerful that they have created a permanent threat to the Constitution.
Rise to Greatness
Rise to Greatness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rise to Greatness write by David Von Drehle. This book was released on 2012-10-30. Rise to Greatness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Von Drehle has chosen a critical year ('the most eventful year in American history' and the year Lincoln rose to greatness), done his homework, and written a spirited account."N"Publishers Weekly."
Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War write by Jonathan W. White. This book was released on 2011-11-07. Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman petitioned Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger B. Taney for release through a writ of habeas corpus. Taney issued the writ, but President Abraham Lincoln ignored it. In mid-July Merryman was released, only to be indicted for treason in a Baltimore federal court. His case, however, never went to trial and federal prosecutors finally dismissed it in 1867. In Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War, Jonathan White reveals how the arrest and prosecution of this little-known Baltimore farmer had a lasting impact on the Lincoln administration and Congress as they struggled to develop policies to deal with both northern traitors and southern rebels. His work exposes several perennially controversial legal and constitutional issues in American history, including the nature and extent of presidential war powers, the development of national policies for dealing with disloyalty and treason, and the protection of civil liberties in wartime.
