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Book Synopsis Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Secretary of War by : Erwin Stanley Bradley
Download or read book Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Secretary of War written by Erwin Stanley Bradley and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Download or read book Amiable Scoundrel written by Paul Kahan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln’s secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799–1889) was one of the nineteenth century’s most prominent political figures. In his wake, however, he left a series of questionable political and business dealings and, at the age of eighty, even a sex scandal. Far more than a biography of Cameron, Amiable Scoundrel is also a portrait of an era that allowed—indeed, encouraged—a man such as Cameron to seize political control. The political changes of the early nineteenth century enabled him not only to improve his status but also to exert real political authority. The changes caused by the Civil War, in turn, allowed Cameron to consolidate his political authority into a successful, well-oiled political machine. A key figure in designing and implementing the Union’s military strategy during the Civil War’s crucial first year, Cameron played an essential role in pushing Abraham Lincoln to permit the enlistment of African Americans into the U.S. Army, a stance that eventually led to his forced resignation. Yet his legacy has languished, nearly forgotten save for the fact that his name has become shorthand for corruption, even though no evidence has ever been presented to prove that Cameron was corrupt. Amiable Scoundrel puts Cameron’s actions into a larger historical context by demonstrating that many politicians of the time, including Abraham Lincoln, used similar tactics to win elections and advance their careers. This study is the fascinating story of Cameron’s life and an illuminating portrait of his times. Purchase the audio edition.
Book Synopsis Correspondence Between His Excellency, President Abraham Lincoln, the Hon. Simon Cameron by : Hiram Walbridge
Download or read book Correspondence Between His Excellency, President Abraham Lincoln, the Hon. Simon Cameron written by Hiram Walbridge and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Correspondence Between His Excellency, President Abraham Lincoln, the Hon. Simon Cameron: Secretary of War, in 1861 1. The country should be put upon a war footing for not less than three years, with an enrolment of six hundred thousand men, of which half that number should never leave the field, until this odious rebellion is crushed, treason annihilated, and all questions of foreign policy properly adjusted. A conflict once begun, partial defeat or even a recoil with anything like equal forces, and the possession of any considerable portion of the Southern country by the insurgents, would demoralize our own Government, create disaffection among our loyal people, prostrate public credit, and paralyze individual prosperity. It would inaugurate a guerilla system, a sort of feudal conflict, the end of which no sagacity can predict. The result would be protracted sectional alienation, implacable hatreds, and incurable animosities not to be obliterated in a century. A long, wearisome, and protracted conflict is not in accordance with the spirit and genius of our people, and is at variance with all their moral and material interests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE HON. SIMON CAMERON by : HIRAM. WALBRIDGE
Download or read book CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE HON. SIMON CAMERON written by HIRAM. WALBRIDGE and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To His Excellency, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War by :
Download or read book To His Excellency, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Correspondence Between His Excellency and President Abraham Lincoln, the Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War by : Hiram Walbridge
Download or read book Correspondence Between His Excellency and President Abraham Lincoln, the Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War written by Hiram Walbridge and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stanton written by Walter Stahr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of the crucial men close to President Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (1814-1869) was the most powerful and controversial. Stanton raised, armed, and supervised the army of a million men who won the Civil War. He organized the war effort. He directed military movements from his telegraph office, where Lincoln literally hung out with him ... Now with this worthy complement to the enduring library of biographical accounts of those who helped Lincoln preserve the Union, Stanton honors the indispensable partner of the sixteenth president"--
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Autocrat by : William Marvel
Download or read book Lincoln's Autocrat written by William Marvel and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's secretary of war during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of Stanton in more than fifty years, William Marvel offers a detailed reexamination of Stanton's life, career, and legacy. Marvel argues that while Stanton was a formidable advocate and politician, his character was hardly benign. Climbing from a difficult youth to the pinnacle of power, Stanton used his authority--and the public coffers--to pursue political vendettas, and he exercised sweeping wartime powers with a cavalier disregard for civil liberties. Though Lincoln's ability to harness a cabinet with sharp divisions and strong personalities is widely celebrated, Marvel suggests that Stanton's tenure raises important questions about Lincoln's actual control over the executive branch. This insightful biography also reveals why men like Ulysses S. Grant considered Stanton a coward and a bully, who was unashamed to use political power for partisan enforcement and personal preservation.
Book Synopsis Commander in Chief by : Geoffrey Perret
Download or read book Commander in Chief written by Geoffrey Perret and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning presidential biographer and military historian explains that in choosing to fight un-winnable wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, Presidents Truman, Johnson, and George W. Bush collectively sought to establish a presidency so powerful that they have created a permanent threat to the Constitution.
Book Synopsis Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet by : Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet written by Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-times by : Alexander Kelly McClure
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-times written by Alexander Kelly McClure and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Lincoln's administration during the Civil War and the president's relations with his generals and other politicians.
Book Synopsis Letter, 1861 Sept. 24, Ft. Monroe, Va. [to] Secretary of War, Simon Cameron by : John Meck Cuyler
Download or read book Letter, 1861 Sept. 24, Ft. Monroe, Va. [to] Secretary of War, Simon Cameron written by John Meck Cuyler and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surgeon, U.S. Army. Letter states that Cuyler was not pro-secessionist.
Book Synopsis Lincoln's War Cabinet by : Burton Jesse Hendrick
Download or read book Lincoln's War Cabinet written by Burton Jesse Hendrick and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces each member of Lincoln's cabinet in turn and shows the part each played in the important crises which arose during the Civil War, thus making a collective biography.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Simon Cameron to Robert G. White Regarding Captain Niles, 17 March 1862 by : Simon Cameron
Download or read book Simon Cameron to Robert G. White Regarding Captain Niles, 17 March 1862 written by Simon Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promises to speak to Secretary of War Stanton about Captain Niles, and request his promotion. He had intended to promote Niles before he was forced to resign as Secretary of State. Written at Lochiel, Cameron's estate. Captain Niles likely refers to Alanson Errick Niles.
Book Synopsis Lincoln President-Elect by : Harold Holzer
Download or read book Lincoln President-Elect written by Harold Holzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency—there would be no compromise on slavery or secession of the slaveholding states, even at the cost of civil war. Abraham Lincoln first demonstrated his determination and leadership in the Great Secession Winter—the four months between his election in November 1860 and his inauguration in March 1861—when he rejected compromises urged on him by Republicans and Democrats, Northerners and Southerners, that might have preserved the Union a little longer but would have enshrined slavery for generations. Though Lincoln has been criticized by many historians for failing to appreciate the severity of the secession crisis that greeted his victory, Harold Holzer shows that the presidentelect waged a shrewd and complex campaign to prevent the expansion of slavery while vainly trying to limit secession to a few Deep South states. During this most dangerous White House transition in American history, the country had two presidents: one powerless (the president-elect, possessing no constitutional authority), the other paralyzed (the incumbent who refused to act). Through limited, brilliantly timed and crafted public statements, determined private letters, tough political pressure, and personal persuasion, Lincoln guaranteed the integrity of the American political process of majority rule, sounded the death knell of slavery, and transformed not only his own image but that of the presidency, even while making inevitable the war that would be necessary to make these achievements permanent. Lincoln President-Elect is the first book to concentrate on Lincoln's public stance and private agony during these months and on the momentous consequences when he first demonstrated his determination and leadership. Holzer recasts Lincoln from an isolated prairie politician yet to establish his greatness, to a skillful shaper of men and opinion and an immovable friend of freedom at a decisive moment when allegiance to the founding credo "all men are created equal" might well have been sacrificed.
Book Synopsis Correspondence Between His Excellency, President Abraham Lincoln, the Hon. Simon Cameron ... [etc.] With General Hiram Walbridge of New York, in 1861 by : Walbridge Hiram 1821-1870
Download or read book Correspondence Between His Excellency, President Abraham Lincoln, the Hon. Simon Cameron ... [etc.] With General Hiram Walbridge of New York, in 1861 written by Walbridge Hiram 1821-1870 and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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