Lincoln Takes Command: The Campaign to Seize Norfolk and the Destruction of the CSS Virginia
By: Steve Norder
3.53
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
On a rainy evening during the Civil War's second May, President Abraham Lincoln and two of his cabi…
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1. Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West (Civil War America)
By: Earl J. Hess , William L. Shea
4.29
Format: 417 pages, Paperback
The 1862 battle of Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas was one of the largest Civil War engagements … read more
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2. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
By: Stephen W. Sears
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Combining brilliant military analysis with rich narrative history, Landscape Turned Red is the defi… read more
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"Even as McClellan conferred with his superiors, sounds of renewed battle came from the direction of Chantilly, a country estate a few miles north of Centreville and on the flank of Pope’s army."-Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
3. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
4. Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It
By: William Garrett Piston , Richard W. Hatcher III
3.36
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the se… read more
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5. Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image
By: Joshua Zeitz
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A timely and intimate look into Abraham Lincoln's White House through the lives of his two closest … read more
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6. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
7. Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
By: Allen C. Guelzo
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the C… read more
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8. Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation
By: Joshua Zeitz
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Lincoln's wartime spiritual journey from heretic son and cold skeptic to America's first evangelica… read more
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"These are trying times,' Samuel Piper of the 158th Pennsylvania wrote to his wife, 'and we should all humble ourselves and try to live as we should and as we will wish we should have done when we com…"-Joshua Zeitz, Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation
9. Lincoln Takes Command: The Campaign to Seize Norfolk and the Destruction of the CSS Virginia
By: Steve Norder
3.53
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
On a rainy evening during the Civil War's second May, President Abraham Lincoln and two of his cabi… read more
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