1864 : Lincoln at the gates of history / Charles Bracelen Flood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flood, Charles Bracelen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

Political leadership.

History.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.

Politics and government.

Political leadership--United States--History--19th century.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Military leadership.

Command of troops.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 521 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Eighteen sixty-four

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Summary:

Historian-biographer Charles Bracelen Flood brings to life the drama of Lincoln's final year, in which he oversaw the last campaigns of the Civil War, was reelected as president, and laid out his majestic vision for the nation's future in a reunified South and in the expanding West. In that crucial year, the Civil War was far from won: as the year began, Lincoln had yet to appoint Ulysses S. Grant as the general-in-chief who would finally bring victory. At the same time, with the North sick of the war, Lincoln was facing a reelection battle in which hundreds of thousands of "Peace Democrats" were ready to negotiate to leave the Confederacy as a separate American nation. In his personal life, he had to deal with the erratic behavior of his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and was unknowingly stalked by John Wilkes Booth.--From publisher description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-491) and index.

ISBN:

9781416552284

1416552286

9781416552291

1416552294

OCLC:

232979161

Online:

Publisher description