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  • Lincoln's Legacy

    Ethics and Politics

    by Phillip S. Paludan, William Miller, Mark E. Neely, Jr., Mark Summers ...
    The four new essays in Lincoln's Legacy describe major ethical problems that the sixteenth president navigated what can be learned from how he did so. The distinguished and award-winning Lincoln scholars William Miller, Mark E. Neely Jr., Phillip Shaw Paludan, and Mark Summers describe Lincoln’s attitudes and actions during encounters with questions of politics, law, constitutionalism, patronage, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation

    Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War

    by Mark E. Neely Jr. ...
    Series series Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
    The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented — and, to this day, still unmatched — strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate Constitution, and the ways the documents shaped the struggle for national survival.Previous ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Lincoln and the Democrats

    The Politics of Opposition in the Civil War

    by Mark E. Neely, Jr ...
    Series series Cambridge Essential Histories
    Lincoln and the Democrats describes the vexatious behavior of a two-party system in war and points to the sound parts of the American system which proved to be the country's salvation: local civic pride, and quiet nonpartisanship in mobilization and funding for the war, for example. While revealing that the role of a noxious 'white supremacy' in American politics of the period has been exaggerated ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era

    by Mark E. Neely Jr. ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguing that social historians have gone too far in concluding that Americans were not deeply engaged in public life and that political historians have gone too far in asserting that politics informed all of Americans' lives, Mark Neely seeks to gauge the importance of politics ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Insanity File

    The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln

    by R. Gerald McMurtry, Mark E. Neely Jr. ...
    In 1875 Robert Todd Lincoln caused his mother, Mary Todd Lincoln, to be committed to an insane asylum. Based on newly discovered manuscript materials, this book seeks to explain how and why.In these documents—marked by Robert Todd Lincoln as the "MTL Insanity File"—exists the only definitive record of the tragic story of Mary Todd Lincoln’s insanity trial. The book that results from these letters ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • New Perspectives on the Civil War

    Myths and Realities of the National Conflict

    by Gary W. Gallagher, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Ervin L. Jordan Jr., James I. Robertson Jr., Mark E. Neely Jr., Alan T. Nolan ...
    As the American Civil War recedes into the past, popular fascination continues to rise. Once a matter that chiefly concerned veterans, separately organized North and South, who gathered to refight old battles and to memorialize the heroes and victims of war, the Civil War has gradually become part of a collective heritage.Issues raised by the war, including its causes and consequences, reverberate ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Lincoln's Generals

    Edited by Gabor S. Boritt ...
    From the moment the battle ended, Gettysburg was hailed as one of the greatest triumphs of the Union army. Celebrations erupted across the North as a grateful people cheered the victory. But Gabor Boritt turns our attention away from the rejoicing millions to the dark mood of the White House--where Lincoln cried in frustration as General Meade let the largest Confederate army escape safely into ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Fate of Liberty

    Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties

    by Mark E. Neely, Jr. ...
    If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's record on the Constitution and individual rights has fueled a century of debate, from charges that Democrats were singled out for harrassment to Gore Vidal's depiction of Lincoln as an "absolute dictator." Now, in The Fate of Liberty, one of America's ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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    by James Patterson ...
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  • The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    by Eric Foner ...
    “A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston GlobeSelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency

    The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President

    Edited by Stephen A. Wynalda ...
    In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s decisions in office-including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, ... Read more

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  • Abraham Lincoln

    The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865

    by George S. McGovern ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    America's greatest president, who rose to power in the country's greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil WarAbraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president—the icon of greatness, the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation's wounds. His presidency is the hinge on which American history pivots, the time when the young ... Read more

    $14.99 USD