Jumat, 16 Maret 2018

CWT Book Review: Tried by War

Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief  by James McPherson, Penguin James M. McPherson may be the most distinguished of the current generation of Civil War historians, and he is surely one of the most prolific. His latest offering, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, traces Lincoln’s struggle to master …

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