The first dual biography of two great leaders furnishes a comprehensive, heavily researched study that compares the two men and reaches firm conclusions about the Civil War that transformed the United States.
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In mostly alternating chapters, historian and journalist Chadwick juxtaposes the two men's paths to leadership, work as legislators, and their abilities as commanders-in-chief. He finds one factor in the outcome of the war to be the difference between a flexible Lincoln who could build coalitions among warring political factions, and the uncompromising Davis who could not. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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