Lincoln and His Generals

ISBN-13: 9780307741967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str.

T. Harry Williams

Opis

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."