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Excerpt from Lincoln the Commander in Chief: Address at Annual Meeting, Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, Madison, February 13, 1956Dr. Williams has contributed to many historical magazines and other publica tions, and regularly reviews books for the New York Times and the Saturday Review of Literature. He was selected last year to contribute a chapter on the American Civil War to the Cambridge University Modern History - an honor rarely accord...

Excerpt from Lincoln the Commander in Chief: Address at Annual Meeting, Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, Madison, February 13, 1956Dr. Williams has contributed to many historical magazines and other publica tions, and regularly reviews books for the New York Times and the Saturday Review of Literature. He was selected last year to contribute a chapter on the American Civil War to the Cambridge University Modern History - an honor rarely accord...

He was one of the most extraordinary figures in America political history, a great natural politician who often behaved like a caricature. In this "masterpiece of American biography" (New York Times), Huey Long stands wholly revealed, analyzed, and understood.

How the temperaments and moral courage of the three great Union generals affected their military leadership--explored with intelligence and wit by one of our most distinguished historians of the Civil War.

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Since it was first published in 1952, "Lincoln and His Generals" has remained one of the definitive accounts of Lincoln's wartime leadership. In it T. Harry Williams dramatizes Lincoln's long and frustrating search for an effective leader of the Union Army and traces his transformation from a politician with little military knowledge into a master strategist of the Civil War. Explored in depth are Lincoln's often fraught relationships with gen...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this work describes the life of one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history. Huey Long was a great natural politician who looked, and often seemed to behave, like a caricature of the red-neck Southern politico, and yet had become at the time of his assassination a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Presidency. In this "masterpiece of American biograph...

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He was one of the most extraordinary figures in America's political history, a great natural politician who had become, at the time of his assassination, a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency.

He was one of the most extraordinary figures in America's political history, a great natural politician who had become, at the time of his assassination, a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency.

First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams' P.G.T. Beauregard is universally regarded as "the first authoritative portrait of the Confederacy's always dramatic, often perplexing" general (Chicago Tribune). Chivalric, arrogant, and of exotic Creole Louisiana origin, Beauregard participated in every phase of the Civil War from its beginning to its end. He rigidly adhered to principles of war derived from his studies of Jomini and...