Five authoritative views on the collapse of the Confederacy.

Why the North Won the Civil War

History

DONALD, David Herbert

Americas

Scribner Paper Fiction

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war. Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln’s character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader. In the most troubled of times, here was a man who led the country out of slavery and preserved a shattered Union—in short, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.

Lincoln

Biographies & Memoirs

JONATHAN CAPE.

1981 University of Chicago Press trade paperback, David Herbert Donald (Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era). In this brilliant biography-a Pulitzer Prize-winning national bestseller-David Herbert Donald, Harvard professor emeritus, traces Sumner's life as the nation careens toward civil war. In a period when senators often exercised more influence than presidents, Senator Charles Sumner was one of the most powerful forces in the American government and remains one of the most controversial figures in American history. His uncompromising moral standards made him a lightning rod in an era fraught with conflict. - Amazon

Charles Sumner and the coming of the Civil War

Leaders & Notable People

University of Chicago Press

Occasionally a book that begins as a work of scholarship becomes a great and profoundly moving human document. This life of Lincoln's friend, law partner, and biographer is such a book. It has a two-fold focus: on the "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" days-the days of Lincoln's courting, arguing, and politicking; and on Herndon's long and wracking fight to publish his biography in the face of poverty, drive, and disillusionment, it achieves the impetus and grandeur of tragedy. David Donald has given us a magnificent account of how a country lawyer became a national figure and what happened to the friend he left behind when he became president. An impressive study of mythmakers and mythmaking, this biography of William Henry Herndon, a man intimately connected to movements for abolition of slavery, temperance, religious liberalism, currency reform, and women's rights is also a sweeping picture of America just before, during, and after the Civil War.

Lincoln's Herndon: A Biography

Historical

Da Capo

Charles Sumner (1811–1874), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for two decades, was an ardent abolitionist; a founder of the Republican Party; chairman of the powerful Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1861 to 1871; chief of the Radical Republicans during the Civil War and Reconstruction; Lincoln's friend and, later, Grant's nemesis; as well as an advocate for universal equality, international peace, women's suffrage, and educational and prison reform. This edition combines for the first time Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War and Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man into one monumental biography that brings into brilliant focus the character and impact of one of the most controversial and enduring forces in American history.

Charles Sumner

Da Capo Press

A unique history of Lincoln's political rise, presidency, and death as reported by the nation's most respected newspaper, with introductions and additional perspectives from two eminent Lincoln historians The New York Times closely covered the political career and presidency of Abraham Lincoln: his political rise, the early years of his presidency, the Civil War, and his assassination and its aftermath--perhaps our nation's most critical and dramatic presidency. Lincoln in the Times includes coverage of the major events in Lincoln's political life, such as his campaign, his surprising election, and his inaugurals; the State of the Union addresses, the Gettysburg Address, and the Emancipation Proclamation; the assassination and funeral. Edited and with introductions and supporting text by David Herbert Donald and Harold Holzer, the book contains vintage photographs and illustrations of Lincoln and others close to him, in the White House and on the battlefields that he visited.

Lincoln in the Times: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, as Originally Reported in The New York Times

Holzer, Harold

St.Martin's Press

Why did the North win the Civil War?What accounted for Lincoln's success as a wartime statesman?What factors brought about sectionalism during the pre-war decades?What is the meaning of the Lincoln legend for contemporary America?In light of new techniques for research in the social sciences, Professor David Donald presents his brilliant reinterpretations of Civil War issues and personalities

Lincoln Reconsidered

Praeger

Looks at the political forces, especially within the Republican Party, which shaped the South following the Civil War

The Politics of Reconstruction, 1863-1867 (Contributions in Medical History,)

Liberty and Union

Recounts the sectional controversies that occurred during the Jacksonian Era and the Populist Period and their effects on our economic organization, race relations, literary history, and social structure

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Little,Brown & Co

Based on the papers of the Wolfe Estate, this biography reveals for the first time the personal life of the major American literary figure, Thomas Wolfe, and examines his relations with his editors, literary agents, and contemporary writers

Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Little,Brown & Company

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