Lincoln and Reconstruction (John C. Rodrigue - LL) pa This is the first biography

This is the first biography of Union General William S

Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents—a remote icon—or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction

This fully revised edition adds extensive new research

a sequel to the author's Stephen A

and comforting wounded Union and Confederate soldiers

Lincoln and Reconstruction (John C. Rodrigue - LL) pa This is the first biographyby John C. Rodrigue Although Abraham Lincoln dominates the literature on the American Civil War, he remains less commonly associated with reconstruction. Previous scholarly works touch on Lincoln and reconstruction, but they tend either to speculate on what Lincoln might have done after the war had he not been assassinated or to approach his reconstruction plans merely as a means of winning the war. In this thought provoking study, John C. Rodrigue