Bøker av William C. Harris

Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize. The first modern history of Lincoln's border-state policies during the Civil War which tells the story of how Confederate campaigns and guerrilla activities kept the border region in constant turmoil--and that the border states preoccupied Lincoln at every turning point of the war

Are we using the best system of values to examine the nation's political problems? Must we forsake idealism for realism? These are two questions that Kenneth Thompson systematically discusses in his penetrating examination of the role that values play in America's political relations with the other nations of the world.

Over the course of the Civil War, fifty-nine men served as governors of the twenty-five Union states. In this revealing volume, award-winning historian William C. Harris explores the complex relationship between Lincoln and the governors of the Union states, illuminating the contributions of these often-overlooked state leaders to the preservation of the nation.

Harris maintains that Lincoln held a fundamentally conservative position on the process of reintegrating the South, one that permitted a large measure of self-reconstruction, and that he did not modify his position late in the war.

Adopting a different approach to an American icon, this work reexamines the life of Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate how his remarkable political acumen and leadership skills evolved during the intense partisan conflict in pre-Civil War Illinois.

Lincoln Prize winner Harris turns to the last months of Lincoln's life in an attempt to penetrate this central figure of the Civil War, and arguably America's greatest president. Lincoln's ability to master the daunting affairs of state during the final nine months of his life proved critical to his apotheosis as savior and saint of the nation.