Lincoln's Hundred Days
Subtitle: the Emancipation Proclamation and the war for the union
By: Louis P. Masur
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780674066908
Subjects: Politics and government; Views on slavery; United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln); United States; Slaves; Emancipation
Description: Assesses President Lincoln's leadership in the one hundred days preceding the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, a period characterized by mounting deaths on the battlefield and heated national debates.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: September 22, 1862 : Lincoln Tells a Story; title: The path to the preliminary proclamation.; title: Toward emancipation; title: Messages and measures; title: A new departure; title: Movement; title: One Hundred days.; title: Judgments; title: The reactions of scholars and soldiers; title: Intervention and election fever; title: "We cannot escape history"; title: Standing firm; title: The proclamation and beyond.; title: Jubilee; title: "Men of Color, To Arms!"; title: "It can not be retracted"; title: Emancipation triumphant; title: Epilogue : April 4, 1865 : Lincoln visits Richmond; title: Appendix : Texts of the Emancipation Proclamation