Lincoln and Harriet Tubman. Sherman and Frederick Douglass. Matthew Brady and John Wilkes Booth. These and 44 other significant Civil War era personalities are featured in this book. In short essays, the author explains why and how each individual was either a trailblazer or a troublemaker -- or sometimes both (Mark Twain was one of those ). By adding to each short essay contemporary photographs, political cartoons, and placards, the author hoped...
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