Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War - Couverture rigide

Klein, Maury

 
9780679447474: Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War
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ISBN 10 : 0679447474 ISBN 13 : 9780679447474
Editeur : Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Klein Maury

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Présentation de l'éditeur

“Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship.”— The Cleveland Plain Dealer 

In November 1860, telegraph lines carried the news that Abraham Lincoln had been elected president. Over the next five months the United States drifted, stumbled, and finally plunged into the most destructive war this country has ever faced. With a masterful eye for telling detail, Maury Klein provides fascinating new insights into the period from the election of Abraham Lincoln to the shelling of Fort Sumter.

Klein brings the key players in the tragedy unforgettably to life: from the vacillating lame-duck President Buchanan, to the taciturn, elusive, and relatively unknown Abraham Lincoln; from Secretary of State Seward carrying on his own private negotiations with the South, to Major Robert Anderson sitting in his island fortress awaiting reinforcements. Never has this immensely significant moment in our national story been so intelligently of so spellbindingly related.

Biographie de l'auteur

Maury Klein is renowned as one of the finest historians of American business and economy. He is the author of many books, including A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II; The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America; and Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929. He is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Rhode Island. Klein lives in Saunderstown, Rhode Island.

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Éditeur
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0679447474
ISBN 13 
9780679447474
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
496
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9780679768821: Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War

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ISBN 10 :  0679768823 ISBN 13 :  9780679768821
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999
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