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 generals such as McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, Fremont, and of course, Ulysses S ...
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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 generals such as McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, Fremont, and of course, Ulysses S. Grant. In this superbly written narrative, Williams demonstrates how Lincoln's persistent "meddling" into military affairs was crucial to the Northern war effort and utterly transformed the president's role as commander-in-chief.
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Copy in green cloth on boards in clipped D/J. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Jacket lightly chipped and creased along edges. Sporadic light foxing to folio edges. Fress of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w plates.
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 363pp., plus index. Bibliography. Illustrated with photographs. Book club edition, ex-library copy with property of US Army stamped on titlepage. Dut-jacket in mylar covers, pasted to insides of front and rear boards. Spine number and card removed from rear endpaper. Top and bottom page edges stained black. A sound, clean, internally unmarked copy in complete dust-jakcet. Good in a good dust-jacket.
Williams?s book does a good job of presenting Lincoln's command problem during the entire Civil War. The general tone of the book is that each general chosen had their good and bad points. It delves in to the issue of who will lead the army of the north. Lincoln is working two ends of a candle. He has specific ideas concerning strategy, but is willing to leave the tactics to the commanders. He is also waging a political battle as well. Some of his decisions are based on political reasons not military. This caused many problems for him. Then Grant arrives on the scene and Lincoln has found his man for the job. Williams?s book is easy to read, easy to follow and is excellently cited with a wealth of primary sources.
