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Pages: 300
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"Weddle reveals that the admiral was the victim of a double irony: although Du Pont championed technological innovation, he outspokenly opposed the use of the n
Lincoln and His Admirals
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Pages: 446
Authors: Craig Symonds
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time,
Tried by War
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: James M. McPherson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-07 - Publisher: Penguin

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"James M. McPherson’s Tried by War is a perfect primer . . . for anyone who wishes to under­stand the evolution of the president’s role as commander in chi
The Compleat Victory
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Pages: 336
Authors: Kevin J. Weddle
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In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance.
Lincoln
Language: en
Pages: 673
Authors: Gore Vidal
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-13 - Publisher: Vintage

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Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a