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Summary: In the life stories of three "accidental heroes"--women whose marriages provided them with position and perspective they would not otherwise have had--one of the nation's premier historians offers a unique understanding of the tumultuous social and political landscape of their time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7082 BERLehrman, 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 LEHSmith, Gene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SMIDavis, William C.
Summary: Profiles the lives of these two great Civil War commanders who came from vastly different backgrounds, exploring their personalities, their characters, their ethical and moral compasses, and their political and military worlds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 DAVWhite, Ronald C. (Ronald Cedric)
Summary: A "biography of one of America's greatest generals-- and most misunderstood presidents"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S. WHIMcPherson, James M.
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy shows how Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force and, like no other chief executive in American history, exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, JEFFERSON MCPRoberts, Cokie.
Summary: Documents the experiences, influence, and contributions of the women of Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 ROBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 ROBMarszalek, John F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.741 MARWhite, Ronald C. (Ronald Cedric)
Summary: "Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North's greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE WHIEgan, Timothy.
Summary: "From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told throughthe improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MEAGHER EGAPerry, James M. (James Moorhead)
Summary: Examines the lives and careers of five presidents who served in the military during the Civil War, and the affect the war had on their presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003