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Cabinet officers United States Biography Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Friends and associates Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Military leadership Presidents United States Biography Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Biography Statesmen United States Biography United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Biography United States Politics and government 1861-1865 United States Politics and government 1865-1869Lehrman, Lewis E.
Contents: Men of character: quintessential leaders with different personalities -- The unlikely emergence of Lincoln and Churchill -- The rhetoric of leadership -- Anglo-American relations -- Virtues of great war leaders -- Managing ministers & legislators -- Finding and managing generals -- Army leadership -- 1862/1942 -- 1863/1943 -- 1864/1944 -- 1865/1945 -- Reelection and reconstruction -- Managing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.709 LEHAvlon, John P.
Summary: "As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a dangerous two-week trip to visit the troops on the front lines accompanied by his young son, seeing combat up close, meeting liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmond, and comforting wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. The power of Lincoln's personal example in the closing days of the war offers a portrait of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 AVLSears, Stephen W.
Summary: The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.75 SEASymonds, Craig L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM SYMSlotkin, Richard
Summary: Describes the political challenges faced by President Lincoln during the summer after the Emancipation Proclamation, including his conflicts with General George McClellan, that ultimately gave General Robert E. Lee his best opportunity to win the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7336 SLOMcPherson, James M.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM MCPMcPherson, James M.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Lincoln 2008McPherson, James M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7092 MCPStahr, Walter
Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017