Lincoln and Reconstruction (John C. Rodrigue - LL) pa Lincoln tends to be seen

Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents—a remote icon—or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction

party politics

often told through its commanders and campaigns

Through a financial lens

Lincoln and Reconstruction (John C. Rodrigue - LL) pa Lincoln tends to be seenby John C. Rodrigue Although Abraham Lincoln dominates the literature on the American Civil War, he remains less commonly associated with reconstruction. Previous scholarly works touch on Lincoln and reconstruction, but they tend either to speculate on what Lincoln might have done after the war had he not been assassinated or to approach his reconstruction plans merely as a means of winning the war. In this thought provoking study, John C. Rodrigue