The author of Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents and Secret Lives of the First Ladies returns with another bizarre look at history's most celebrated personalities. With Secret Lives of the Civil War , Cormac O'Brien unearths a host of strange, little-known facts about Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, John Wilkes Booth, and Harriet Tubman. But you'll also learn about lesser-known personalities who changed the fate of the United States. It includes fascinating sidebars on a host of strange trivia (bizarre battles, Civil War medicine, etc.), 30 dazzling portraits by Monika Suteski, and a handful of gorgeously rendered maps. Secret Lives of the Civil War is a fascinating look at one of the strangest chapters in American history.
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Publisher
Quirk Books
ISBN-13
9781594741388
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90251662
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Author
Cormac O'brien
Publication Name
Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War between the States