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[Washington] Joseph J. Ellis,
HIS EXCELLENCY, GEORGE WASHINGTON. NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Plates, notes, index,
320 pages. ~~~ From Publishers Weekly: "In this follow-up to
his bestselling Founding Brothers, Ellis offers a magisterial account of
the life and times of George Washington, celebrating the heroic image of
the president whom peers like Jefferson and Madison recognized as 'their
unquestioned superior' while acknowledging his all-too-human qualities.
Ellis recreates the cultural and political context into which Washington
strode to provide leadership to the incipient American republic. But more
importantly, the letters and other documents Ellis draws on bring the
aloof legend alive as a young soldier who sought to rise through the
ranks of the British army during the French and Indian War, convinced he
knew the wilderness terrain better than his commanding officers; as a
Virginia plantation owner (thanks to his marriage) who watched over his
accounts with a ruthless eye; as the commander of an outmatched rebel
army who, after losing many of his major battles, still managed to catch
the British in an indefensible position. Following Washington from the
battlefield to the presidency, Ellis elegantly points out how he steered
a group of bickering states toward national unity; Ellis also elaborates
on Washington's complex stances on issues like slavery and expansion into
Native American territory. The Washington who emerges from these pages
is similar to the one portrayed in a biographical study by James
MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn published earlier this year, but
Ellis's richer version leaves readers with a deeper sense of the man's
humanity."
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[Washington] Thomas Fleming,
WASHINGTON's SECRET WAR: The Hidden History of Valley Forge.
. NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket.
(NY: Collins, 2005). Plates, notes, index, 384 pages. ~~~
From Kirkus Reviews: "A revisitation of that American
creche, the wintry encampment at Valley Forge, where stalwart
Continentals created a nation. Prolific historian and novelist
Fleming (A Passionate Girl, 2004, etc.) isn't a revisionist as
such; he has no interest in diminishing the heroism of the
revolutionary soldiers who served with Washington and company in a
time when victory seemed unlikely, certainly no interest in
questioning the validity of their cause. Yet he does a solid job of
showing that their weaknesses were institutional. In its wisdom,
Congress had enacted legislation that made it impossible to profit
from supplying the army, a disincentive even to a patriot, and it
'insisted on trying to manage all aspects of running the war, without
the knowledge or skill to do the job,' which included second-guessing
Washington's chain of command. Part of Washington's task during his
unwanted but necessary layover was to do a little old-fashioned
politicking to lose the micromanagement. He had other challenges, of
course: securing provisions, getting a sick and hungry army back on
its feet, learning how to fight effectively against a much
better-trained, better-paid and better-led enemy. In the last matter,
Washington had inestimable help from the legendary Baron von Steuben,
whose name is still honored among American soldiers today; no matter,
as Fleming nicely reveals, that the good baron more or less made up
his resume, for Ben Franklin had 'concocted his imaginary career and
the idea of offering his services as a volunteer' just when such a
person was most needed. Another surprise, courtesy of Fleming, is
his account of the ethnic composition of the Continental forces,
filled with German and Irish newcomers, with Indians and blacks --
all of whom were tested the following spring and acquitted themselves
well at places like Monmouth, where the tide of war turned. Though
without the flair of a McCullough or Ambrose or Brands, another solid
work from Fleming.
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(Washington), Nettles, Curtis P,
GEORGE WASHINGTON AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
VG/VG.
(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951). 2nd Printing. No obvious flaws to book.
Some light chipping and faded spine to jacket, which is in a mylar protector.
Bibliography, index, 338 pages.
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[Washington] Michael Novak & Jana Novak,
WASHINGTON's GOD: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country.
. NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket.
(NY: Basic Books, 2006). Plates, maps, appendices, notes, index, 282 pages.
~~~ From the Publisher: "Drawing upon new sources and Washington's own words, the Novaks reveal that
the first president was indeed deeply spiritual though also deeply private about his personal religious
convictions and practices. This new presentation of Washington - as a man whose religion guided his
governance - brings him into the center of today's debates about the role of faith in government and
will challenge everything we thought we knew about the inner life of the father of our country."
~~~ From Publishers Weekly: "Most modern historians have made three basic assumptions about
the religious views of our nation's first president: he was a deist; he was only a marginal Christian who
kept up appearances but had no depth of conviction; and he believed only in an impersonal force or destiny
that he called 'Providence'. Michael Novak, the well-known conservative thinker and author of
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, teams up with his daughter Jana to attempt to debunk all three
of these notions about Washington's religious views. Written at the specific request of Mount Vernon and
with the assistance of their archives, this book is carefully researched. It is most persuasive when the
Novaks show that despite his natural reserve, a depth of religious feeling ran through Washington's public
and private speeches and correspondence, disproving the portrait of a tepid, perfunctory Anglicanism.
However, they don't succeed as well in disproving Washington's deist sensibility; the Novaks adopt the
modern assumption that being a Christian and being a deist were mutually exclusive -- a conclusion that few
in the late 18th century would have shared. At times, the Novaks' starry-eyed admiration of the man pushes
this book over the bounds of biography into hagiography.
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[Adams] John Ferling,
ADAMS vs. JEFFERSON: The Tumultuous Election of 1800.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Illustrations, maps, notes, index, 260 pages. ~~~
From Publishers Weekly: "Veteran historian Ferling's account of one of America's most extraordinary political dramas lays bare the historically pugilist nature of American presidential politics. In 1800 the nation was struggling to its feet amidst an array of threats from foreign governments and a host of constitutional struggles. Against this backdrop, President John Adams, an elite, strong-willed Federalist, set to square off against his vice president, Thomas Jefferson, a populist Republican. The campaign was brutal. Republicans assailed the Federalists as scare-mongers. Federalists attacked Republicans as godless. But it was a constitutional quirk that nearly collapsed the nascent United States. Adams was eliminated, but Jefferson and his vice-presidential running mate, Aaron Burr, tied in the Electoral College with 73 votes, throwing the decision into the House of Representatives. That left the Federalist-dominated House to decide between two despised Republicans for president. After 36 votes, a political deal finally gave Jefferson the presidency, ending a standoff that had the nation on the brink of collapse. Although his account is dense at times, Ferling richly presents the twists and turns of the election, as well as a vivid portrait of a struggling new nation and the bruising political battles of our now revered founding fathers, including the major roles played by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. In what has already proven to be a vicious 2004 campaign, readers will take some comfort in knowing that the vagaries of the political process, although no doubt exacerbated today by mass media, have changed little in over 200 years. Of even greater comfort, and Ferling's ultimate triumph, is showing that, historically, when faced with dire circumstances at home and abroad, American democracy has pulled through.?
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[Adams] Catherine Drinker Bowen,
JOHN ADAMS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
VG/VG-- Jacket intact with bright colors, but has small tears & chips around all extremities.
(No price shown; Book of the Month Club). Book itself is tight and clean. A nice copy overall.
Little, Brown & Company, 1950. Decorated end pages, Four plates, including frontispiece.
Extensive notes, bibliography & index, 699 pages.
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[Jefferson] William Howard Adams,
THE PARIS YEARS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON.
NEW copy. TRADE PAPERBACK. Yale University Press.
354 pages. ~~~ In 1784 Thomas Jefferson moved to the sophisticated and exhilarating city of
Paris, where he spent the next five years as ambassador from the new United
States of America. This engaging book recreates in word and illustration the
atmosphere and personalities of pre-Revolutionary Paris, and it reveals the
profound impact they had on one of America's first transatlantic citizens.
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[Jefferson] Joseph J. Ellis,
AMERICAN SPHINX: The Character of Thomas Jefferson.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gold paper sticker on cover (not shown in picture) which reads: "National Book Award Winner". Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Extensive notes, index, 365 pages.
~~~
From Publishers Weekly: "Penetrating Jefferson's placid, elegant facade, this extraordinary biography brings the sage of Monticello down to earth without either condemning or idolizing him. Jefferson saw the American Revolution as the opening shot in a global struggle destined to sweep over the world, and his political outlook, in Ellis's judgment, was more radical than liberal. A Francophile, an obsessive letter-writer, a tongue-tied public speaker, a sentimental soul who placed women on a pedestal and sobbed for weeks after his wife's death, Jefferson saw himself as a yeoman farmer but was actually a heavily indebted, slaveholding Virginia planter. His retreat from his early anti-slavery advocacy to a position of silence and procrastination reflected his conviction that whites and blacks were inherently different and could not live together in harmony, maintains Mount Holyoke historian Ellis, biographer of John Adams (Passionate Sage). Jefferson clung to idyllic visions, embracing, for example, the "Saxon myth," the utterly groundless theory that the earliest migrants from England came to America at their own expense, making a total break with the mother country. His romantic idealism, exemplified by his view of the American West as endlessly renewable, was consonant with future generations' political innocence, their youthful hopes and illusions, making our third president, in Ellis's shrewd psychological portrait, a progenitor of the American Dream."
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[Jefferson] John Ferling,
ADAMS vs. JEFFERSON: The Tumultuous Election of 1800.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Illustrations, maps, notes, index, 260 pages. ~~~
From Publishers Weekly: "Veteran historian Ferling's account of one of America's most extraordinary political dramas lays bare the historically pugilist nature of American presidential politics. In 1800 the nation was struggling to its feet amidst an array of threats from foreign governments and a host of constitutional struggles. Against this backdrop, President John Adams, an elite, strong-willed Federalist, set to square off against his vice president, Thomas Jefferson, a populist Republican. The campaign was brutal. Republicans assailed the Federalists as scare-mongers. Federalists attacked Republicans as godless. But it was a constitutional quirk that nearly collapsed the nascent United States. Adams was eliminated, but Jefferson and his vice-presidential running mate, Aaron Burr, tied in the Electoral College with 73 votes, throwing the decision into the House of Representatives. That left the Federalist-dominated House to decide between two despised Republicans for president. After 36 votes, a political deal finally gave Jefferson the presidency, ending a standoff that had the nation on the brink of collapse. Although his account is dense at times, Ferling richly presents the twists and turns of the election, as well as a vivid portrait of a struggling new nation and the bruising political battles of our now revered founding fathers, including the major roles played by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. In what has already proven to be a vicious 2004 campaign, readers will take some comfort in knowing that the vagaries of the political process, although no doubt exacerbated today by mass media, have changed little in over 200 years. Of even greater comfort, and Ferling's ultimate triumph, is showing that, historically, when faced with dire circumstances at home and abroad, American democracy has pulled through.?
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[Jefferson] THOMAS JEFFERSON: FARMER.
McFarland & Company, 1991., NEW, a mint copy. Hardcover issued without dust
jacket. Notes, index, 219 pp. "Focusing on Jefferson's place in the agriculture
of his time, this work studies the crops he introduced and grew, farm
implements, animals, personnel, and his gardens and landscaping." OUT OF PRINT.
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[Jefferson] Roger G. Kennedy,
Mr JEFFERSON'S LOST CAUSE: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Oxford University Press.
350 pages. ~~~ Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers - free and independent
yeomen. Yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the
slaveholding plantation system - particularly with the Louisiana Purchase -
squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger
G. Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of that gap between Jefferson's
stated aspirations and what actually happened.
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[Jefferson] Marc Leepson,
SAVING MONTICELLO.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Free Press.
303 pages. ~~~ Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826, he was more than $100,000 in
debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all his
furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final goodbye to Monticello
itself. Saving Monticello offers the first complete post-Jefferson history of
this American icon and reveals the amazing story of how one Jewish family saved
the house that became a family home to them for 89 years - longer than it ever
was to the Jeffersons. With a dramatic narrative sweep across generations, Marc
Leepson vividly recounts the turbulent saga of this fabled estate. Twice the
house came to the brink of ruin, and twice it was saved, by two different
generations of the Levy family.
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[Jefferson] Alf J. Mapp, Jr.,
THOMAS JEFFERSON: Passionate Pilgrim.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Madison Books.
445 pages. ~~~ Eagerly awaited by readers of Alf Mapp's best-selling Thomas Jefferson: A
Strange Case of Mistaken Identity, this final volume follows Jefferson from his
inauguration as President in 1801 to his death at the age of eighty-three on
July 4, 1826. In Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim, Jefferson the human
being, passionate in his loves and hates, is never lost in a revealing portrait
of the public figure. Witnessing Jefferson's actions in private life as well as
in the arena of history, the reader learns why this founding father was abhorred
by some but adored by many more.
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[Jefferson] James F. Simon,
WHAT KIND OF NATION.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Simon & Schuster.
348 pages. ~~~ What Kind of Nation is a riveting account of the bitter and protracted struggle
between two titans of the early republic over the power of the presidency and
the independence of the judiciary. The clash between fellow Virginians (and
second cousins) Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall remains the most decisive
confrontation between a president and a chief justice in American history.
Fought in private as well as in full public view, their struggle defined basic
constitutional relationships in the early days of the republic and resonates
still in debates over the role of the federal government vis-a-vis the states
and the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret laws.
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[Jefferson] Garry Wills,
Mr JEFFERSON'S UNIVERSITY.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. National Geographic Society.
162 pages. ~~~ The University of Virginia is one of America's greatest architectural treasures
and one of Thomas Jefferson's proudest achievements. In this engrossing,
perceptive book, acclaimed historian Garry Wills explores the creation of a
masterpiece, tracing its evolution from Jefferson's idea for an "academical
village" into a classically beautiful campus. Mr. Jefferson's University is at
once a wonderful chronicle of the birth of a national institution and a deftly
sketched portrait of the towering American who brought it to life.
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[Jefferson] Garry Wills,
THOMAS JEFFERSON: Genius of Liberty.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Viking Penguin, Inc.
445 pages. ~~~ The book's lively narrative, illuminated by Jefferson's own words, weaves back
and forth between the public career -- delegate to the Continental Congress,
author of the Declaration of Independence and other calls to liberty, governor
of Virginia, two-term president -- and his life at his beloved plantation and
house, Monticello. Commentaries on manuscripts explore the conflicts between his
public ideals, political realities, and his private life, including the recent
controversial evidence of a long liaison with his slave Sally Hemings. From his
worldview to his family relationships, Thomas Jefferson provides a new and
intimate sense of the man historians have only recently begun to extricate from
thc lofty abstractions that have born his name. Large-format hardcover with 150
illustrations, two-thirds in color. 182 pages.
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(Jackson), Heidler, David S. and Jeanne T. Heidler,
OLD HICKORY'S WAR: ANDREW JACKSON & THE QUEST FOR EMPIRE.
Stackpole, 1996., NEW, a mint copy. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Illustrations, extensive notes, bibliography, index, 308 pp. "The only thorough
study of Jackson's military activities between the end of the War of 1812 and
his presidency focuses on his actions against the British, the Spanish, and the
Seminole Indians, especially in the conquest of Florida."
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[Lincoln], Harold Holzer,
LINCOLN AT COOPER UNION: The Speech
that made Abraham Lincoln President.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2004).
352 pages.
~~~
Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most
influential and widely reported pre-presidential
address — an extraordinary appeal by the western
politician to the eastern elite that propelled him
toward the Republican nomination for president.
Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper
Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln's
suitability for the presidency and reassured
conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition to
slavery to Republican progressives.
~~~ Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer
places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the
times — an era of racism, politicized journalism, and
public oratory as entertainment — and shows how the
candidate framed the speech as an opportunity to
continue his famous "debates" with his archrival Democrat Stephen
A. Douglas on the question of slavery. ~~~ Holzer
describes the enormous risk Lincoln took by appearing
in New York, where he exposed himself to the country's
most critical audience and took on Republican Senator
William Henry Seward of New York, the front runner, in
his own backyard. Then he recounts a brilliant and
innovative public relations campaign, as Lincoln took
the speech "on the road" in his successful quest for
the presidency.
~~~ From Kirkus Reviews: Had it not been
for his "right makes might" speech on Feb. 27, 1860,
at New York's Cooper Union college, Abraham Lincoln
might well have remained a rustic lawyer and
back-country raconteur. One can expect such fond
hyperbole from Holzer, who has edited numerous
collections of Lincolniana (none reviewed)-speeches,
photographs, apothegms, and gossip. Cooper Union is
with him (their Web site says the old rail-splitter's
appearance there was a principal factor in "assuring
him the presidency"). Holzer's structure is
chronological -- we learn how the invitation arrived
in October 1859 from a group of young Republicans, how
the honorarium was an impressive $200 (an amount that
Lincoln's political enemies later tried to use against
him), how the venue was changed at the 11th hour from
Henry Ward Beecher's Brooklyn church, how Lincoln
thoroughly researched his topic (the right of the
federal government to prohibit slavery in the new
territories), how he crafted his address (and
supervised its subsequent publication), how his tall,
homely, unkempt appearance initially startled his
large audience (about three-fourths capacity), how he
was introduced by William Cullen Bryant. Holzer's
research is prodigious: We learn that 168 gas lamps
hissed in 27 crystal chandeliers; we're told about
each stop made by the future president's train on his
subsequent speaking tour through New England; we read
that the Brooklyn ferry ran every seven minutes and
cost two cents. Although Holzer is an unabashed (even
effervescent) advocate for Lincoln -- and for the
significance of this speech-he also is careful to
analyze the architecture and rhetoric of the remarks
and to puncture some puffballs that have grown in the
yard of Lincoln legends -- e.g., that right after the
speech he turned down a $10,000 annual salary to work
for the New York Central Railroad (the offer was never
made). The entire speech -- annotated -- appears in an
appendix. Sometimes more laudatory than analytical --
but the enthusiasm is infectious.
~~~ This edition currently OUT OF PRINT.
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[Lincoln], Ronald C. White, Jr.,
THE ELOQUENT PRESIDENT: A Portrait of Lincoln.
Random House, 2005. NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket.
480 pages. ~~ "If America lasts a millennium, it is
unlikely that ever a time will come when
candidates for office every quadrennium do not turn to the
words of Abraham
Lincoln, either because their own are inadequate, or because
they hope to imbue
their own aspirations with some of the mythic echoes of
holiness that seem to
attend anything that came from the Emancipator's pen. We look
to Lincoln's words
for comfort in crisis, inspiration for a cause, and most
of all to give
ourselves a place in the passing ages. He wrote or said
something that
applies—or can be made to apply — to virtually every human
condition and
aspiration, and often, when we cannot find him saying what
we want him to, we
put our own words in his mouth. It is rather in the form
of Winston Churchill's
conclusions on the legendary King Arthur, that if he did
not really live, he
should have; if Lincoln did not say something trenchant for
every occasion, he
should have. ~~ Certainly there is one thing Lincoln
should have done that,
alas, he was not given life enough to do, and that was to pen
his own memoir.
None but he could fill in the innumerable gaps in what
we know, or think we
know, of his life and times. In The Eloquent President:
A Portrait of Lincoln
through His Words, Ronald C. White, Jr., has made himself
Lincoln's
co-author. 'Lincoln's eloquence may prove to be his most
lasting legacy,' White
concludes, and certainly he is well qualified to make such
a judgment. The
author of Lincoln's Greatest Speech, White has
thoroughly plumbed
virtually every known written or oral expression left by
Lincoln. White shows
the development of Lincoln's ideas on Union, slavery, and
mankind. At the same
time he explores the development of Lincoln's written
style and literary
eloquence, the influences of Elizabethan cadence, biblical
rhetoric, and
idiomatic American expression. ~~ From
Lincoln's earliest recollections of his youth to the hours
prior to his death,
White explores all the dimensions of what the man had to
say about his own life
and where he came from, geographically, socially, and
spiritually. In the
process he illuminates many of the time-worn expressions
that have seen their
meaning lost or clouded through careless repetition. He
disassembles some of
them almost mathematically, and then delves into the
component parts to find the
process of Lincoln's thinking as first he persuaded himself,
and then crafted
his phrases to persuade others. Many have written analyses
of Lincoln's style,
but no one has explored so deeply or profitably the man's
literary thinking, and
shown how his words reveal and mirror his own growth.
~~ The Eloquent
President ought rightfully to stand as a lasting monument to White's
industry and innovation, and to the ageless meaning of his subject's words. As
always, and for as long as humankind survive, Lincoln will have the last word."
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[Lincoln], Wert, Jeffry D., THE SWORD
OF LINCOLN: The Army of the Potomac.
Simon & Schuster, 2005. NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket.
560 pages. ~~ "Bruce Catton referred to it as 'Mr. Lincoln's Army.'
Indeed, he wrote a
three-volume history of the Army of the Potomac, the final
volume of which
earned him the Pulitzer Prize for History. Jeffry D. Wert
refers to the army as
'The Sword of Lincoln,' and so it was, as he ably demonstrates in his new book
of the same title. It is one of the ironies of the Civil War that while other
armies arguably achieved more, in the collective-and selective-memory of most
Americans, the Union Army in the Civil War was the Army of the Potomac.
~~ The Army of the Tennessee under its several commanders, most notably
William T. Sherman, marched thousands of miles and took the war from Kentucky,
across Tennessee, over northern Alabama and across Georgia, then up through
South and North Carolina, and was on the verge of entering Virginia when the war
ended. It defeated a succession of armies, took several state capitals, and
conquered tens of thousands of square miles of the Confederacy, virtually
breaking its backbone. By contrast, the Army of the Potomac was never more than
130 miles from Washington and spent its entire war career in the state of
Virginia except for dogging Confederate marches into Maryland and Pennsylvania
in 1862 and 1863. ~~ Lincoln’s Army ~~ Part of the reason for the
continuing focus on the Army of the Potomac is its foe, Robert E. Lee and the
Army of Northern Virginia. No other Yankee commander faced a foe so wily or
able. More of the reason lies in the army’s special relationship with the
president. Lincoln almost virtually built that army himself, out of the
volunteers he first called to arms in 1861. Because part of its assignment was
the protection of Washington, Lincoln saw the army often, knew its officers
better than any others, and the men in the ranks had the opportunity to see him
repeatedly, thus forging a bond between the two. ~~ Wert describes in
telling detail the birth and development of the army, the makeup of its officer
corps, the culture that developed within the circles of leadership, often
working against its goals, and the spirit of the men in the ranks. Those
soldiers endured more defeat than any other Union enlisted men, yet they stayed
the course, often in spite of inept leaders, and in the face of the growing
legend of invincibility of their foe. They suffered higher casualties than any
other Union field army, in the process fighting the most studied and storied
battles of the war, from Antietam to Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Petersburg,
before Grant and fate finally brought them Appomattox. Wert’s research is
pleasingly thorough, and his judgments mature and well informed, as we would
expect from the author of half a dozen distinguished Civil War military works.
On a subject as big as this, many books could be written, and surely more will
be, but Wert’s achievement is to capture the spirit of this virtual city of
armed men on whom Lincoln pinned so much of his hope for the salvation of the
Union."
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[Grant]
Maihafer, Harry J.
THE GENERAL AND THE JOURNALISTS: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana
.
Washington DC: Brassey's, 1998. As new in as new dust jacket, black boards. 1st edition. HARDCOVER OUT OF PRINT.
"As both general and president, Grant felt the full power of the press. By a remarkable twist of fate, not only his wartime successes but also his peacetime failures were directly influenced by Greeley and Dana, two of the greatest figures of American journalism. The trio provides a fascinating contrast: Grant the simple soldier, basically unchanged from the time he left West Point until the day he died, honor untarnished but reputation sullied by men in whom he placed too much trust; Greeley the idealistic, brilliant, opinionated kingmaker, alternating in wartime between hawk and dove, forever shifting in his allegiances; and Dana the perverse, pragmatic, cynical intellectual, one of the first to emphasize news over editorials. The General and the Journalists follows the three powerful men as their paths cross during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Vividly portraying the 19th century era of "personal journalism," when Greeley and Dana became major players on the national stage, Harry J. Maihafer shows how the media greatly affected the conduct of the Civil War and, to this day, has shaped the public's
perception of Lincoln's, Johnson's, and Grant's presidencies. Extensive quotes from contemporary
newspapers convey a feeling of immediacy, bringing to life a new and important aspect of Grant's
career , one of intense drama and bitter conflict."
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Roosevelt, Theodore,
THE WINNING OF THE WEST
. The Daniel Boone Edition,
one of only 200 numbered sets, with tipped-in original manuscript page by author. In four volumes.
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[Roosevelt, Theodore], Renehan, Edward J., Jr.,
THE LION'S PRIDE: THEODORE ROOSEVELT & HIS FAMILY IN PEACE & WAR.
Oxford University Press., 1998. NEW copy. First edition.hardcover with
dust jacket, photographs, notes, bibliography, index, 289 pages.
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Reckner, James R.,
TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S GREAT WHITE FLEET
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[Coolidge] Peter Hannaford,
THE QUOTABLE CALVIN COOLIDGE: Sensible Words for a New Century.
. VG/VG. (Images from the Past, 2000). 183 pages.
~~~ President Calvin Coolidge has only recently begun to get the reappraisal he
deserves.
His written and spoken words are strikingly applicable to today. His
statements about radio and then-fledgling television - with appropriate word
changes - would do for our era of VCRs, satellites, and broadband
communications. We consider the effects of large political campaign
contributions and of globalization to be current issues, but Coolidge was there
first, as his quotations on these subjects show.
~~~ Coolidge believed in -- and practiced -- lean, direct, clear prose. It is
unadorned, thus giving it power. Unlike the poll-driven banalities and hyperbole
practiced by many latter-day politicians. Coolidge gives it to us straight.
~~~ That was how he lived his life. Calvin Coolidge displayed the very finest
qualities of state and national leadership, yet he was described simply and
appropriately, by one who knew him well, as "a good and kindly man."
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