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Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents -- Nigel Hamilton - Hardcover

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Books,Subjects,Biographies & Memoirs,Historical,United States
Label
Little, Brown and Company
Artist
Hamilton, Nigel
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Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
031656463X
ISBN-13
9780316564632
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25066152977

Product Key Features

Book Title
Lincoln Vs. Davis : the War of the Presidents
Number of Pages
800 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military / United States, Presidents & Heads of State
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Nigel Hamilton
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
35.6 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-943805
Reviews
"A fascinating comparison between these two men and their development under the pressures of war.... [ Lincoln vs. Davis ] offers a unique perspective on the two men who uniquely shaped how their respective governments organized and conducted their war plans and why Lincoln was ultimately more successful."-- New York Journal of Books, "Hamilton portrays in powerful detail Lincoln's inability to take decisive action that puts to shame any notion of the so-called team of rivals assembled by a canny president who knew how to play Cabinet members off one another.... You will spend a long time in this book wondering if Lincoln is ever going to come to his senses. The waiting period will seem as long as it seemed to his contemporaries. And you will be just as shocked as his Cabinet was to discover that he had made up his mind without their input."-- The New York Sun, "A worthy companion to his magisterial trilogy on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's leadership in World War II, Nigel Hamilton's similar study of Abraham Lincoln (a born politician) and Jefferson Davis (a born soldier) is chock full of vivid character sketches and trenchant analysis, showing how and why these two leaders each came, via different routes during the first year and a half of the Civil War, to make a momentous decision in September 1862--choices that, as Lincoln vs. Davis convincingly argues, fatefully determined the outcome of the conflict."-- Michael Burlingame, author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life, "Brilliant... Hamilton's frank assessment is buoyed by keen use of diaries and other primary sources, as well as colorful prose. Books on the Civil War are a dime a dozen, but this is one of the most well-written and thoughtful works to appear in years. It is a story of a country at war with itself and of the two men who found themselves at its center. Men who shaped events, yes, but who also found themselves at their mercy."-- The Washington Examiner, "[An] ingenious account... It wasn't until Lincoln understood how essential slave labor was to Davis that he understood how important it was to take it away, Hamilton suggests.... A penetrating and surprisingly fresh take on an oft-rehashed subject."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Synopsis
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILDER LEHRMAN LINCOLN PRIZE From the New York Times bestselling presidential biographer comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance--and how Abraham Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last, best chance to save the Union. Of all the books written on Abraham Lincoln, there has been one surprising gap: the drama of how the "railsplitter" from Illinois grew into his critical role as U.S. commander-in-chief, and managed to outwit his formidable opponent, Jefferson Davis, in what remains history's only military faceoff between rival American presidents. Davis was a trained soldier and war hero; Lincoln a country lawyer who had only briefly served in the militia. Confronted with the most violent and challenging war ever seen on American soil, Lincoln seemed ill-suited to the task: inexperienced, indecisive, and a poor judge of people's motives, he allowed his administration's war policies to be sabotaged by fickle, faithless cabinet officials while entrusting command of his army to a preening young officer named George McClellan - whose defeat in battle left Washington, the nation's capital, at the mercy of General Robert E. Lee, Davis's star performer. The war almost ended there. But in a Shakespearean twist, Lincoln summoned the courage to make, at last, a climactic decision: issuing as a "military necessity" a proclamation freeing the 3.5 million enslaved Americans without whom the South could not feed or fund their armed insurrection. The new war policy doomed the rebellion--which was in dire need of support from Europe, none of whose governments now would dare to recognize rebel "independence" in a war openly fought over slavery. The fate of President Davis was sealed. With a cast of unforgettable characters, from first ladies to fugitive coachmen to treasonous cabinet officials, Lincoln vs. Davis is a spellbinding dual biography from renowned presidential chronicler Nigel Hamilton: a saga that will surprise, touch, and enthrall.
LC Classification Number
E457.H224 2025

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