Offers insights into questions and debates about America's greatest historical crisis - the Civil War. This work reflects from Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief to ... » 

Offers insights into questions and debates about America's greatest historical crisis - the Civil War. This work reflects from Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief to what might have happened if the South had won. It distills the wisdom of many years of teaching and writing about the meaning of the war and about slavery and its abolition. «