Congress At War How Republican Reformers Fought The Civil War Defied Lincoln Ended Slavery And Remade America Fergus M Bordewich by Fergus M. Bordewich 9780451494443, 9780451494450, 045149444X, 0451494458, 2019015354 instant download after payment.

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I have tried to capture the sound of their voices and the impassioned immediacy of their strife over issues that still stir our emotions and hopes. Of course, it is not possible to bring alive the human dimension of all the hundreds of men who served in Congress during those tumultuous years. So I have built my narrative mainly around four of them....Measured by both the urgency of the problems they faced and by their dynamic productivity, the two wartime Congresses were among the most effective in American history. The many landmark laws they passed, Ohiosenator John Sherman predicted, “will be a monument to good or evil. They cover such vast sums, delegate and regulate such vast powers, and are so far-reaching in their effects, that generations will be affected well or
ill by them.” But all this, as public men were fond of saying then, still lay in the womb of time.