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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 380 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers a visual perspective on the Civil War as reflected by artifacts ranging from a soldier's footlocker and the Emancipation Proclamation to leaves from Abraham Lincoln's bier and Grant's handwritten terms of surrender at Appomattox.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a groundbreaking new account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating slavery or a defense of the Union, they argue, Lincoln's guiding principle was the defense of equal economic opportunity. Lincoln firmly believed that...
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