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Fateful LightningA New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction by Allen C. Guelzo
Category: History
The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion in property. The war also sparked some of the most ...Show more
Gettysburg : The Last Invasion by Allen C. Guelzo
Category: History | Series: Vintage Civil War Library
Lincoln: a Very Short Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen ...Show more
Our Ancient Faith - Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo
Category: History
An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today--by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize "It is altogether fitting and proper that, with this meditation on democracy and its most subtle ...Show more
Redeeming the Great Emancipator by Allen C. Guelzo
Category: Biography | Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Abraham Lincoln projects a larger-than-life image across American history owing to his role as the Great Emancipator. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln's identity is the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. The award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo offers a vigorous def ...Show more
Robert E. Lee - A Life by Allen C. Guelzo
Category: Biography Memoir
From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. Robert E. Lee is one ...Show more
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