The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln's War
by Marvel, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 9780618996
- ISBN 13
- 9789780618995
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780618990641 . About new book in crisp dust jacket with tiny scuff to spine and inventory sticker to rear panel. ; 9 X 6.40 X 1.30 inches; 464 pages .
Synopsis
The Great Task Remaining 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. 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 Lincoln’s 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 year—a year that saw victory and defeat, doubt and riot—as well as a compelling story of a people who clung to the promise of a much-longed-for end.
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38989
- Title
- The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln's War
- Author
- Marvel, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 9780618996
- ISBN 13
- 9789780618995
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- 9780618990641
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B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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