ebooks Taming Democracy: "The People;" the Founders; and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution by Terry Bouton in History

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The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom and the New York Times bestsellers Crossroads of Freedom and Tried by War; among many other award-winning books; James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. In this collection of provocative and illuminating essays; McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation's history. McPherson sheds light on topics large and small; from the average soldier's avid love of newspapers to the postwar creation of the mystique of a Lost Cause in the South. Readers will find insightful pieces on such intriguing figures as Harriet Tubman; John Brown; Jesse James; and William Tecumseh Sherman; and on such vital issues as Confederate military strategy; the failure of peace negotiations to end the war; and the realities and myths of the Confederacy. This Mighty Scourge includes several never-before-published essays--pieces on General Robert E. Lee's goals in the Gettysburg campaign; on Lincoln and Grant in the Vicksburg campaign; and on Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief. All of the essays have been updated and revised to give the volume greater thematic coherence and continuity; so that it can be read in sequence as an interpretive history of the war and its meaning for America and the world. Combining the finest scholarship with luminous prose; and packed with new information and fresh ideas; this book brings together the most recent thinking by the nation's leading authority on the Civil War.