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Lincoln and the fight for peace / John Avlon.

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ISBN: 9781982108120
ISBN: 1982108126
Physical Description: x, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Section 1: With malice toward none -- Section II: Unconditional surrender: Lincoln at war. Black in blue and gray -- Father Abraham on the front lines -- Lincoln and the kittens -- Peacemakers on the River Queen -- The ghosts of Petersburg -- Section III: A magnanimous peace: Lincoln and the fall of Richmond. Inside the Confederate White House -- Conversations with the enemy -- Dixie and Macbeth -- Section IV: Appomattox and the art of peace. "We are all Americans" -- Lincoln's last speech -- Good Friday, 1865 -- Section V: Reconstruction: a tragedy in three acts. The anti-Lincoln -- USA vs. KKK -- The star-spangled banner -- Section VI: The fight for peace. Woodrow Wilson's lost cause -- Deploying the Lincoln legend -- A plan to win the peace -- Denazification and democratization -- MacArthur and the emperor -- "The golden rule for world peace" -- Conclusion.
Summary, etc.:	"A groundbreaking, revelatory history of Abraham Lincoln's plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War-a vision that inspired future presidents as well as the world's most famous peacemakers, including Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a story of war and peace, race and reconciliation"-- Provided by publisher.