FREE: TRIED BY WAR : Abraham Lincoln As Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson (2008, Hardcover)

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This 6 1/2" X 9 1/2" hardback book with jacket has 329 pages. Book is in very good condition, but jacket has some marks & sticker residue on it. ***** Lincoln exercised the right to take any necessary measures to preserve the union and majority rule, including violating longstanding civil liberties (though McPherson considers the infringements milder than those adopted by later presidents). As McPherson shows, Lincoln understood the synergy of political and military decision-making; the Emancipation Proclamation, for instance, harmonized the principles of union and freedom with a strategy of attacking the crucial Confederate resource of slave labor. Lincoln's commitment to linking policy and strategy made him the most hands-on American commander-in-chief; he oversaw strategy and offered operational advice, much of it shrewd and perceptive. Lincoln may have been an amateur of war, but McPherson successfully establishes him as America's greatest war leader.******