Lincoln and the Radicals

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1941 - Biography & Autobiography - 413 pages
Sometimes, in American politics, a conflict becomes so heated and divisive--as the conflict over slavery did--that the ground is set for civil war. Abraham Lincoln, a pragmatist who wanted to rebuild national unity, ran up against the radicals in his own party who insisted on a rigid solution, regardless of the cost to the country.

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Contents

A House Divided
3
The Opening of the Duel
39
The Ides of December
53
Seven Against McClellan
91
Making McClellan Fight
110
Tax Fight and Emancipate
169
Fredericksburg and the Reign of Terror
197
110
208
Molding the Northern Mind and Firing
230
Fighting Joe Hooker and the Finest Army on
263
Mcade and the Issue of Reconstruction
288
The Election of 1864
319
Grant and the Final Victory over Lincoln
334
Epilogue
383
Index
395
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