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Author Perret, Geoffrey.

Title Lincoln's war : the untold story of America's greatest president as commander in chief / Geoffrey Perret.

Imprint New York : Random House, [2004]
©2004
Edition 1st ed.
Collation xv, 470 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-452) and index.
Contents Follow me -- Let it come -- Three years or the war -- First martyr, first hero -- Short road to a long war -- The battle for public opinion -- Little Mac -- Manifestly astray -- Great Scott -- Bog of war -- Groping and hoping -- Western horizons -- Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds -- Two irons in the fire -- The meteor man -- Bloody and muddy -- Desperate measures -- Déjà vu carousel -- A chapter closes -- How low can you go? -- Sifting out the hearts of men -- Counsels of war -- The art of command -- North and South -- Man power -- Jailer visionary -- Westward, look! -- Fuglemen lost -- Man, thinking -- Boys in blue - The first general -- Soldier, soldier -- Endgame -- The last tattoo.
Note Copies 2 and 3: Gift of Nadine and Harmon Wilkinson / Abraham Lincoln Collection.
Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Military leadership.
Executive power -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
ISBN 0375507388 (acid-free paper)