Tarnished Victory: Finishing Lincoln's War - Rilegato

Marvel, William

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ISBN 10: 0547428065 ISBN 13: 9780547428062

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011

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A master Civil War historian re-creates the final year of our nation’s greatest crisis.

With Tarnished Victory William Marvel concludes his sweeping four-part series—this final volume beginning with the Virginia and Atlanta campaigns in May 1864 and closing with the final surrender of Confederate forces in June 1865. In the course of that year the war grows ever more deadly, the home front is stripped to fill the armies, and the economy is crippled by debt and inflation, while the stubborn survival of the Confederacy seriously undermines support for Lincoln’s war.

In the end, it seems that Lincoln’s early critics, who played such a pivotal role at the start of the series, are proven correct. Victory did require massive bloodshed and complete conquest of the South. It also required decades of occupation to cement the achievements of 1865, and the failure of Lincoln’s political heirs to carry through with that occupation squandered the most commendable of those achievements, ultimately making it a tarnished victory. Marvel, called the “Civil War’s master historical detective” by Stephen Sears, has unearthed provocative details and rich stories long buried beneath a century of accumulated distortion and misinterpretation to create revisionist history at its best.

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Recensione:

  "Marvel’s account of the year’s smaller engagements is unusually full and insightful...a fluent narrative." --Publishers Weekly

"Finely written, minutely researched...Marvel culls evidence from a wide variety of sources, from the lowliest private’s letters to his sweetheart to Gen. Grant’s communiqués with Lincoln. It is this breadth of perspectives, both personal and contextual, that differentiates this chronicle from the many dry recitations of battles and their attendant losses that characterize a particular genre of Civil War history." --Kirkus "Marvel is a first-rate scholar." --Booklist

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“[For] the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, one can look forward to years of celebrating the glory of combat and the sacrifice of soldiers on countless battlefields . . . It might be wise for discerning readers to consult William Marvel’s multivolume history of Mr. Lincoln’s war before embarking on that journey.” — Brooks D. Simpson, Civil War Book Review

Praise for Mr. Lincoln Goes to War
“The most provocative account of events in 1861 in a generation. Readers who think they understand the Civil War’s first year and the roles played by Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Lyon, Charles Stone, and a host of others should brace themselves for a bold new perspective.” — A. Wilson Greene, author of Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion

Praise for Lincoln’s Darkest Year
“Like no other scholar, William Marvel describes in detail the North’s manifold weaknesses, including internal conflicts, incompetence, and jealousies at every level, rampant and persistent racism, ugly scandals, dangerous gambles, and frequent military disasters, any one of which might have lost the war.” — T. Michael Parrish, Linden G. Bowers Professor of American History, Baylor University

Praise for The Great Task Remaining
“Marvel presents the story of the American Civil War with a depth of understanding seldom achieved by a historian. The war is a huge canvas, and Marvel fills every square inch of it.” — Mike Pride, Concord Monitor

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0547428065
• ISBN 13: 9780547428062
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 473