The Lincoln Forum : rediscovering Abraham Lincoln / John Y. Simon and Harold Holzer, editors ; Dawn Ruark, associate editor.

Other Title:

Rediscovering Abraham Lincoln

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2002.

Series:

The North's Civil War, 1089-8719 ; no. 21

Format/Description:

Book
xvi, 262 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Military leadership.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

Contents:

Lincoln as Commander in Chief / James M. McPherson
Commander in Chief Lincoln and General Grant / John Y. Simon
"You must either attack Richmond or give up the job and come to the defence of Washington" : Abraham Lincoln and the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign / Gary W. Gallagher
Men, machines, and old Abe : Lincoln and the Civil War Navy / Craig L. Symonds
Abraham Lincoln and William T. Sherman : the cause was Union / John F. Marszalek
"If I had gone up there, I could have whipped them myself" : Lincoln's military fantasies / Gerald J. Prokopowicz
"In for four years more" : the Army of Northern Virginia and the United States presidential election of 1864 / J. Tracy Power
"A matter of profound wonder" : the women in Lincoln's life / Frank J. Williams
Mary Lincoln : symbol, historical target, and human being / Jean H. Baker
Abraham Lincoln's body and body politic : two puzzles in mid-nineteenth-century American political language and culture / Iver Bernstein
The new Gettysburg Address : a study in illusion / Barry Schwartz
Abraham Lincoln's reputation during his administration / Hans L. Trefousse
The Lincoln grail : the great collectors and their great collections / Harold Holzer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Simon, John Y.
Holzer, Harold.
Ruark, Dawn.
Lincoln Forum.

ISBN:

0823222144 (hardcover)
0823222152 (pbk.)

OCLC:

49576391

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