ePub The Problem of Evil: Slavery; Freedom and the Ambiguities of American Reform by From Brand: Univ. of Massachusetts Press in History

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From 1861 to 1865; there were two American presidents; one in the North one in the South. Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis led their nations through a bitter civil war that changed the course of American history. Both were brilliant; patriots; convinced they were right. One of several reasons why the North won the South lost can be found in the drastically different characters of the two presidents. The electric flexible personality of Lincoln enabled him to build coalitions among warring political factions become one of the strongest most successful presidents in history. The inability of the uncompromising Davis to do the same contributed to the South s losing the war. Illustrations.