Bøger af Phillip Shaw Paludan

This is a review of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, encompassing the Civil War and offering an analysis of the man himself. The book was a selection of the History Book Club and the Book-of-the-Month Club. It is designed to be of interest to both the general reader and the scholar.

In January 1863, in the isolated mountains of western North Carolina, Confederate soldiers captured and murdered thirteen victims they suspected of being Unionist guerrillas. First published in 1981, "Victims traces the lives and personalities of both killer and victims, illuminating the pressures that can bring men anywhere to commit atrocities more heinous than war itself.

This volume describes the multifaceted impacts of the Civil War on Northern society. Weaving together insights from literature, law and politics, it shows how the North redefined itself as a modern nation through two linked events - the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution.