The War That Emancipated One President and Enslaved Another

Among the best parts of Nigel Hamilton’s book are passages about presidential wives who knew far better than their husbands what was wanted in politics and on the battlefield.

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The 16th American president, Abraham Lincoln. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

‘Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents’
By Nigel Hamilton
Little, Brown and Company, 800 pages

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