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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (mylar). 1st Edition. Pp: xii + 319. Titles: sp. Illust. w/ b/w portraits. Lavender cloth bds. Ex-lib. w/ usual markings. Moderate handling wear. Interior leaves are clean and tight. A study of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, established by Congress, was often quite controversial. Includes notes and index. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. short tear to jacket, a couple stray ink marks to end papers, otherwise a clean, square, gently used copy, octavo, 319 pages.

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ISBN 0-7006-0871-0. Hardback. First Printing. Near Fine Condition book in a Near Fine Condition Dustjacket. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Copy Two.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. F. Kansas University Press (1998). First edition. First printing. hardbound. New in dust jacket. A perfect unread copy. 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. illustrated 319 pages.

Paperback. Condition: New. Shortly after the beginning of the Civil War, Congress established the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War to investigate such matters as military contracts, trade with the enemy, treatment of the wounded, and the causes of Union defeat. But its greatest efforts were directed toward a more vigorous war effort - endorsing emancipation, the use of black soldiers, and the appointment of fighting generals - leading President Lincoln to fear that this watchdog committee would become little more than an ""engine of agitation.""The COCOW generated controversy throughout the war, and its legacy sparks debate even today over whether it invigorated or hampered the Union war effort. In the wake of both critical and sympathetic appraisals, Bruce Tap now offers the first history of COCOW's activities, focusing on the nature of its power and its influence on military policy in order to show conclusively what its ultimate impact really was.Tap presents solid evidence, including examples of contact between Congress and the military, to show that the COCOW produced little good and no small amount of harm. The Committee's principal members entertained simplistic notions about warfare that led to rash judgments about its conduct, and because its goals were congruent with Republican ideology, its principal criterion in evaluating military leadership was adherence to anti-slavery beliefs. As a result, the COCOW polarized Congress and the Army, limited strategic options, demoralized the Union's top generals, and inflated the reputations of incompetent soldiers. As Tap demonstrates, it was in many ways a serious impediment to the war effort, due not to its fanaticism or vindictiveness as some historians have suggested, but rather to its members' total ignorance of military matters.Over Lincoln's Shoulder is a revisionist account that corrects prevailing images of the relationship between Republican politicians and the Army during the Civil War. By examining the conflict between Congress's constitutional right to investigate and the impropriety of its actions, it raises questions that are applicable today about the ability of legislative bodies to function in areas where specialized knowledge is required.…

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