A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865
A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 won the Pulitzer Prize in 1918. This landmark study of the most traumatic era in American history offers a concise, clear-minded survey of the Civil War from political and economic perspectives. From "the great factor in the destruction of slavery"-the election of Abraham Lincoln as President in 1860-to the "twenty thousand men in Wall Street" who sang to celebrate the war's end four years later, Rhodes, a self-taught historian, lends a distinctive voice to his retelling of the war. All students of the upheaval and disorder of the period will appreciate this enduring and unusual perspective on it.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Cosimo, Inc.
- Year
- 2009
- ISBN-13
- 9781605207650
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- American Civil WarSlavery and abolitionAbraham Lincoln
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWonMajor(1918)
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