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The Civil War Income Tax and the Republican Party, 1861-1872
Algora Publishing 2010; US$ 23.95Few people realize that the economic principle of income tax elimination among Republicans can be traced back at least to the Civil War and Reconstruction. The author brings to life the multifaceted debate and traces the anti-tax view back to Alexander Hamilton. This book shows that current attacks by members of the Republican Party on the income tax... more...
The Great Comeback
St. Martin's Press 2008; US$ 7.99In the fall of 1858, Abraham Lincoln looked to be anything but destined for greatness. Just shy of his fiftieth birthday, Lincoln was wallowing in the depths of despair following his loss to Stephen Douglas in the 1858 senatorial campaign and was taking stock in his life. The author takes us on a journey with Abraham Lincoln from the last weeks... more...
Eight Weeks in Washington, 1861
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 4.99This is a historical look at Abraham Lincoln's transition to the Presidency. more...
Every Day of the Civil War
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 125.00From the early seizure of government property during the latter part of 1860 to the final Confederate surrender in 1865, this book provides a day-to-day account of the U.S. Civil War. Although the book provides a daily chronicle of the combat, it is written in narrative form to give readers some continuity as they move from skirmish to skirmish. During... more...
Courage Under Fire
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 15.99?If it is necessary that I should fall on the battlefield for . . . my courage does not halt or falter? ? Major Sullivan Ballou, 1861, prior to the Battle of Bull Run In Courage Under Fire , award-winning historian Wiley Sword captures the fervor of a nation at war with itself; a war that pitted brother against brother. Through the immediacy... more...
Grant and Sherman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005; US$ 7.99"We were as brothers," William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship to Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible. They were prewar failures--Grant, forced to resign... more...
Shadows of Blue & Gray
Tom Doherty Associates 2002; US$ 14.99Ambrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War, he lived through it--on the battlefields and over the graves--and in doing so gave birth to a literary chronicle of men at war previously unseen in the American literary canon. The fact that some of these stories verged on the supernatural, others on factual reporting, and others on the fine line... more...
My Dearest Cecelia
St. Martin's Press 2004; US$ 7.99As she enters the Commencement Ball at West Point Military Academy on a spring evening in 1837, in her pink gown with white silk roses and ropes of pearls, Cecelia Stovall looks---and feels---like the perfect, innocent Southern belle. Little does she know that at that dance she will meet the man who will change her life---and the lives of all her... more...
Confederates in the Tropics
University Press of Mississippi 2011; US$ 55.00Charles Swett (1828-1910) was a prosperous Vicksburg merchant and small plantation owner who was reluctantly drawn into secession but then rallied behind the Confederate cause, serving with distinction in the Confederate Army. After the war some of Swe more...









