⚡[PDF]✔ Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency

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Reelecting Lincoln The Battle for the 1864
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Sinopsis
Reelecting Lincoln The Battle for the 1864
Presidency tells the dramatic story of
perhaps the most critical election campaign in
American history. Taking place in the midst of
the Civil War, this election would determine the
very future of the nation. Would the country be
unified or permanently divided? Would slavery
continue? Weaving corroborative detail and rich
anecdotal material into a fast-paced narrative,
John C. Waugh succeeds in placing this pivotal
election in its proper context while evoking its
rich human drama. In these pages, the men and
women who figured in this epic campaign emerge in
bold relief, with all their strengths,
weaknesses, and idiosyncrasies. The result is a
page-turner that also happens to be a true
story.The best historical writing is the kind
that makes the past come alive. Waugh, a former
newspaper correspondent, proves that history need
not be dry he uses his journalistic skills to
infuse the pages with the sights, sounds, and
atmosphere of those times. Drawing from an
extensive array of sources, including published
and unpublished reminiscences, memoirs,
autobiographies, letters, newspapers, and
periodicals, he clearly evokes the drama and
uncertainty of that fateful year with all the
immediacy of a political reporter covering a
national presidential election today.
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Reelecting Lincoln The Battle for the 1864
Presidency tells the dramatic story
of perhaps
the most critical election campaign in American
history. Taking place in the midst of the
Civil War, this election would determine the very
future of the nation. Would the country be
unified or permanently divided? Would slavery
continue? Weaving corroborative detail and rich
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anecdotal material into a fast-paced narrative,
John C. Waugh succeeds in placing this pivotal
election in its proper context while evoking its
rich human drama. In these pages, the men and
women who figured in this epic campaign emerge in
bold relief, with all their strengths,
weaknesses, and idiosyncrasies. The result is a
page-turner that also happens to be a true
story.The best historical writing is the kind
that makes the past come alive. Waugh, a former
newspaper correspondent, proves that history need
not be dry he uses his journalistic skills to
infuse the pages with the sights, sounds, and
atmosphere of those times. Drawing from an
extensive array of sources, including published
and unpublished reminiscences, memoirs,
autobiographies, letters, newspapers, and
periodicals, he clearly evokes the drama and
uncertainty of that fateful year with all the
immediacy of a political reporter covering a
national presidential election today.