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An accomplished biographer of Civil War figures (Andrew Johnson, 1997), historian Trefousse considers the fluctuations in domestic and foreign opinion on Abraham Lincoln and his presidency. Trefousse primarily mines newspapers, but he also incorporates diarists and congressional floor speeches to graph the course of commentary. As detailed in William C. Harris' Lincoln's Last Months (2004), Lincoln's 1864 reelection fueled widespread belief that Lincoln was as great a president as Washington. Trefousse reinforces this perception, which stood in stark contrast to the avalanche of published criticism of Lincoln that prevailed for most of the Civil War. Southern journals naturally vilified Lincoln, while Northern papers favoring the Democratic Party arraigned him on a number of counts, from suspending habeas corpus to his decisions dealing with slavery. To the abolitionist press, Lincoln was vacillating and conservative. Amid the slings and arrows, Trefousse detects steady support for Lincoln from Union soldiery and Republican politicians. An illuminating work on how contemporary and historical viewpoints of the same individual can drastically diverge. Gilbert Taylor
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The Journal of Southern History
"An important addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century America."
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An accomplished biographer of Civil War figures (Andrew Johnson, 1997), historian Trefousse considers the fluctuations in domestic and foreign opinion on Abraham Lincoln and his presidency. Trefousse primarily mines newspapers, but he also incorporates diarists and congressional floor speeches to graph the course of commentary. As detailed in William C. Harris' Lincoln's Last Months (2004), Lincoln's 1864 reelection fueled widespread belief that Lincoln was as great a president as Washington. Trefousse reinforces this perception, which stood in stark contrast to the avalanche of published criticism of Lincoln that prevailed for most of the Civil War. Southern journals naturally vilified Lincoln, while Northern papers favoring the Democratic Party arraigned him on a number of counts, from suspending habeas corpus to his decisions dealing with slavery. To the abolitionist press, Lincoln was vacillating and conservative. Amid the slings and arrows, Trefousse detects steady support for Lincoln from Union soldiery and Republican politicians. An illuminating work on how contemporary and historical viewpoints of the same individual can drastically diverge. Gilbert Taylor
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
The Journal of Southern History
"An important addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century America."
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