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In Defense of FDR Thank you for Joseph E. Persico’s excellent article “Did Roosevelt Doom Us to a Longer War?” Spring 2012. In all the “what ifs” of World War II, the timing of the Allied invasion of France still generates interesting arguments. Persico has made a good case that Roosevelt’s decisions added “at least …
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Book Review: Lincoln and the Power of the PressLincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion By Harold Holzer Simon & Schuster 2014, $37.50 Abraham Lincoln understood the power of the press. From earl… Read MoreMisfire at Mine RunMajor General George Meade’s options were limited as he worked to fill voids in the Army of the Potomac’s command hierarchy after the Battle of Gettysburg. His two biggest losses a… Read MoreBook Review: Bloody AutumnBloody Autumn: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 By Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt Savas Beatie, 2014, $12.95 Thumbnail accounts of important battles an… Read MoreReality Check: Not a Quick Civil WarAfter the first year, any illusions that the war would be quick and dirty were gone. Winfield Scott, general in chief of the U.S. Army, – had identified the Mississippi River as an… Read MoreWreck the Weldon RailroadGrant sent them to destroy one of the Confederates’ few remaining supply lines; would they succeed? Threatening clouds presaged soggy weather on the morning of December 7, 1864, as… Read More
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