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How the Civil War Became a Revolution
Liveright
July 2012
On Sale: July 16, 2012
512 pages
ISBN: 0871404117
EAN: 9780871404114
Kindle: B007HXL0DO
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
A masterful account of the Civil War's turning point in the
tradition of James McPherson's Crossroads of Freedom.
In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting,
Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy—one
that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the
nation to all-out war. The centerpiece of that new strategy
was the Emancipation Proclamation: an unprecedented use of
federal power that would revolutionize Southern society. In
The Long Road to Antietam, Richard Slotkin, a renowned
cultural historian, reexamines the challenges that Lincoln
encountered during that anguished summer 150 years ago. In
an original and incisive study of character, Slotkin
re-creates the showdown between Lincoln and General George
McClellan, the “Young Napoleon” whose opposition to Lincoln
included obsessive fantasies of dictatorship and a military
coup. He brings to three-dimensional life their ruinous
conflict, demonstrating how their political struggle
provided Confederate General Robert E. Lee with his best
opportunity to win the war, in the grand offensive that
ended in September of 1862 at the bloody Battle of Antietam.
10 illustrations; 8 maps
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