In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the nation to all-out war. The centerpiece of that new strategy was the Emancipation Proclamation: an unprecedented use of federal power that would revolutionize Southern society. In The Long Road to Antietam, Richard Slotkin, a renowned cultural historian, reexamines the challenges that Lincoln encountered during that anguished summer 150 years ago. In an original and incisive study of character, Slotkin re-creates...
In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy one that abandoned hope for a comp...
