| Title | : | Tarnished Victory: Finishing Lincoln's War |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (222 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0547428065 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2011-11-15 |
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A master Civil War historian re-creates the final year of our nation’s greatest crisis.With Tarnished Victory William Marvel concludes his sweeping four-part series—this final volume beginning with the Virginia and Atlanta campaigns in May 1864 and closing with the final surrender of Confederate forces in June 1865. In the course of that year the war grows ever more deadly, the home front is stripped to fill the armies, and the economy is crippled by debt and inflation, while the stubborn survival of the Confederacy seriously undermines support for Lincoln’s war. In the end, it seems that Lincoln’s early critics, who played such a pivotal role at the start of the series, are proven correct. Victory did require massive bloodshed and complete conquest of the South. It also required decades of occupation to cement the achievements of 1865, and the failure of Lincoln’s political heirs to carry through with that occupation squandered the most comm
Editorial : Exclusive: A Q&A with Author William Marvel
Q: What is the principle theme of Tarnished Victory?
A: I suppose the overall theme, as it was in the three previous volumes of my series on Lincoln’s War, is that the dominant narrative of the Civil War is not especially valid. There were many narratives, and even in the North, which was my focus, most of them were much more unpleasant and uninspiring than the romantic tale of altruism and patriotism that retails so well today. The earlier volumes examined whether the war was a prudent undertaking, and how its prosecution demanded much more than anyone expected (as well as more than many were willing to bear); this final volume considers both the ultimate cost and the degree to which the fruits of victory were squandered.
Q: Did we need another multi-volume history of the Civil War?
A: Most emphatica
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