The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln's War
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston and New York, 2010
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"The Great Task Remaining" offers a masterly re-creation of the third year of our nation's greatest crisis. It is a striking, often poignant portrait of people balancing their own values, rather than ours, to determine whether the horrors attending Mr. Lincoln's war were worth bearing in order to achieve his ultimate goals. Illustrated with black & white historical photos. Notes. Bibliography. As new hardcover in a as new, mylar covered, unclipped dust jacket.
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- Title
- The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln's War
- Author
- Marvel, William
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston and New York
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 061899064X
- ISBN 13
- 9780618990641
- Printing
- 1st Printing
The Great Task Remaining is a striking, often poignant portrait of people balancing their own valuesrather than oursto determine whether the horrors attending Mr. Lincolns war were worth bearing in order to achieve his ultimate goals.
As 1863 unfolds, we see the disaster at Chancellorsville, the battle of Gettysburg, and the end of the siege of Vicksburg. Then, astonishingly, the Confederacy springs vigorously back to life after the Union triumphs of the summer, setting the stage for Lincolns now famous speech on the Pennsylvania battlefield. Without abandoning the underlying sympathy for Lincoln, Marvel makes a convincing argument for the Gettysburg Address as being less of a paean to liberty than an appeal to stay the course in the face of rampant antiwar sentiment.
The Great Task Remaining offers a provocative history of a dramatic yeara year that saw victory and defeat, doubt and riotas well as a compelling story of a people who clung to the promise of a much-longed-for end.
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About the Author
William Marvel is the author of Lincoln's Darkest Year, Mr. Lincoln Goes to War, Lee's Last Retreat, Andersonville, and several other acclaimed books on the Civil War. He has won a Lincoln Prize, the Douglas Southall Freeman Award, and the Bell Award. He lives in New Hampshire.
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