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The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln's War
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Author
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William Marvel.
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Publisher
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Houghton Mifflin/BOMC
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.25
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6.25
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1.25
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ISBN
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9780618990641
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Pages/Publication Date
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430/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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23453
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Sale Price:
$9.98
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Description
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Lincoln Prize winner William Marvel here presents the third volume in his year-by-year revisionist analysis of the Northern conduct of the Civil War, following Mr. Lincoln Goes to War and Lincoln's Darkest Year. As 1863 unfolds, the Union sees the disaster at Chancellorsville, the costly victory at Gettysburg, and the end of the siege of Vicksburg. Then, astonishingly, the Confederate army rebounds after the Union triumphs of the summer, setting the stage for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address—one that Marvel argues was less a paean to liberty than an appeal to stay the course, to those wondering whether the horrors attending Mr. Lincoln's war were worth bearing in order to achieve his ultimate goals.
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