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1858 : Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See by Bruce Chadwick (2008, Hardcover)

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"Highly recommended-a gripping narrative of the critical year of 1858 and the nation's slide toward disunion and war. Chadwick is especially adept at retelling the intense emotions of this critical time, particularly especially in recounting abolitionist opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act and Jefferson Davis's passionate defense of this institution. For readers seeking to understand how individuals are agents of historical change will find Chadwick's account of the failed leadership of President James Buchanan, especially compelling." -G. Kurt Piehler, author of "Remembering War the American Way" and Associate Professor of History, The University of Tennessee 1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict. The record of that year is told in seven separate stories, each participant, though unaware, is linked to the oncoming tragedy by the central, though ineffective, figure of that time, the man in the White House, President James Buchanan. The seven figures who suddenly leap onto history's stage and shape the great moments to come are: Jefferson Davis, who lived a life out of a Romantic novel, and who almost died from herpes simplex of the eye; the disgruntled Col. Robert E. Lee, who had to decide whether he would stay in the military or return to Virginia to run his family's plantation; William Tecumseh Sherman, one of the great Union generals, who had been reduced to running a roadside food stand in Kansas; the uprising of eight abolitionists in Oberlin, Ohio, who freed a slave apprehended by slave catchers, and set off a fiery debate across America; a dramatic speech by New York Senator William Seward in Rochester, which foreshadowed the civil war and which seemed to solidify his hold on the 1860 Republican Presidential nomination; John Brown's raid on a plantation in Missouri, where he freed several slaves, and marched them eleven hundred miles to Canada, to be followed a year later by his catastrophic attack on Harper's Ferry; and finally, Illinois Senator Steven Douglas' seven historic debates with little-known Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois Senate race, that would help bring the ambitious and determined Lincoln to the Presidency of the United States. As these stories unfold, the reader learns how the country reluctantly stumbled towards that moment in April 1861 when the Southern army opened fire on Fort Sumter.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
ISBN-10
140220941x
ISBN-13
9781402209413
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038830510

Product Key Features

Book Title
1858 : Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See
Author
Bruce Chadwick
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / 19th Century, History & Theory, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Political, American Government / General, Military
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
368 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
25.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
E458.C425 2008
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2007-039254
Dewey Decimal
973.7/11
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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by sign.of.the.gav...Jun 03, 2008
1858 is a MUST READ for Civil War or History Buffs!
I can't wait to read this several more times. The information is riveting. This is a fascinating look at the lives of the key people and events which led to the Civil War. It is like watching a horror movie as the heroine is being snuck up on by the villian. You want to warn Lincoln, Buchanan, Lee, and the others of the impending danger. Chadwick's research is well documented and from both well-known and obscure sources. He has done the work I would love to have done myself...if I had the time, resources, and talent. Thank you, Mr. Chadwick, for a superb book. I highly recommend it to all who possess, or are possessed with, a passion for our country's history.

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