The Essentials of American history

T. Harry Williams

FRANK FREIDEL

Richard Nelson Current

W. Elliot Brownlee

KNOPF

This survey aims to balance social and cultural with the political and diplomatic history. It aims to help instructor to organize his or her course in many different ways confident that the text will support both the topics discussed in class and provide students with the ideal book for self-study. Every chapter begins with a summary of major themes and ends with a boxed chronology entitled "Significant Events", noting the major events discussed in the chapter. "Where Historians Disagree" essays describe major histographical debates. Greater attention is given to native American history, and there are revised sections on women's history.

American history:a survey

History

Williams Freidel Current

Americas

Knopf: distributed by Random House

The first of a multi-volume survey of American History

American history: A survey

The Essentials of American history to 1877

"A brilliant, bawdy and unforgettable picture of the most colorful, as well as the most dangerous, man to engage in American politics...As literature, this factual portrait of the kingfish can stand in comparison with the fictional version in Robert Penn Warrens ALL THE KING'S MEN -- WASHINGTON POST

Huey Long

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

BANTAM BOOKS

Lincoln And His Generals

BOOKS-ON-TAPE, INC.

This is the human, dramatic, & fascinating story of Lincoln as commander in chief of an army at war against its brothers. It is a riveting look at his search for a winning general, & of his own emergence as a master strategist. Here is the Lincoln who bore the whole burden of forging a modern command system that would serve a nation in years to come. Here are the generals whom Lincoln appointed & then rejected: McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, Buell, Rosecrans, Fremont, Clernand & others. Finally, Ulysses S. Grant appears, the general whom Lincoln trusted above all the rest, & the one to whom he gave much of the power of leadership he had withheld from the others. He chose wisely & well, as it turned out. Reprint of 1952 edition.

Lincoln and His Generals

Diane Pub Co.

Here are the characters and personalities of the three great Union generals, explored with intelligence and wit by one of our most distinguished historians of the Civil War. Mr. Williams is interested not only in military skills but in the temperament for command and, most of all, in moral courage. Each of these men, he writes, "represents a particular and significant aspect of leadership, and together they show a progression toward the final type of leadership that had to be developed before the war could be won. Most important, each one illustrates dramatically the relation between character and generalship." From McClellan's eighteenth-century view of war as something like a game conducted by experts on a strategic chessboard; to Sherman's understanding of the violent implications of making war against civilians; to the completeness of character displayed by Grant, Mr. Williams's absorbing investigation offers a fresh perspective on a subject of enduring interest.

McClellan, Sherman, and Grant

Historical

Ivan R. Dee

He was one of the most extraordinary figures in America's political history, a great natural politician who had become, at the time of his assassination, a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency.

Huey Long (Library Edition)

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

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