<div>A timely look at the atmosphere of political hostility surrounding the Civil War, and the venom faced by America&rsquo;s sixteenth president. Today, Abraham Lincoln is a beloved American icon, widely considered to be our best president. It was not always so. This book takes a look at what Lincoln&rsquo;s contemporaries actually thought and said about him during his lifetime, when political hostilities, and ultimately civil war, raged. The era in which our sixteenth president lived and governed was the most rough-and-tumble in the history of American politics. The hostility behind the criticism aimed at Lincoln by the great men of his time, on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, is startling, the spectacular prejudice against him often shocking for its cruelty, intensity, and unrelenting vigor. The plain truth is that Lincoln was deeply reviled by many in his time. This book is both an entertaining read and a well-researched, serious look at the political context that begat the president&rsquo;s predicament. Lincoln&rsquo;s humanity has been unintentionally trivialized by some historians and writers who have hidden away the real man in a patina of bronze. This book helps us better understand the man he was, and how history is better and more clearly viewed through a long-distance lens. &ldquo;Not the warm and fuzzy portrait we&rsquo;re used to seeing . . . An eye-opening study, the first of its kind to focus on what Lincoln&rsquo;s contemporaries really thought of him. On the other hand, this is not mean-spirited Lincoln-bashing . . . Tagg assesses his presidency through the social and political context of mid-19th century America. It was a time, for example, when &lsquo;the rabid press routinely destroyed the reputations of public men,&rsquo; when the stature of the presidency, &lsquo;stained by feeble performances from a string of the poorest presidents in the nation&rsquo;s history,&rsquo; had plunged over decades.&rdquo; &mdash;Civil War Times Magazine</div>

The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln

<div>The author of The Generals of Gettysburg examines the characters and actions of the military leadership at this Tennessee Civil War battle. &ldquo;Character is destiny,&rdquo; wrote the Greek philosopher Heraclitus more than twenty-five centuries ago. Most writers of military history stress strategy and tactics at the expense of the character of their subjects. Larry Tagg remedies that oversight with The Generals of Shiloh, a unique and invaluable study of the high-ranking combat officers whose conduct in April 1862 helped determine the success or failure of their respective armies, the fate of the war in the Western Theater, and, in turn, the fate of the American union. Tagg presents detailed background information on each of his subjects, coupled with a thorough account of each man&rsquo;s actions on the field of Shiloh and, if he survived that battle, his fate thereafter. Many of the great names are found here in this early battle, from Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Don Carlos Buell to Albert S. Johnston, Braxton Bragg, and P. G. T. Beauregard. Many more men, whose names crossed the stage of furious combat only to disappear in the smoke on the far side, also populate these pages. Each acted in his own unique fashion. This marriage of character (&ldquo;the features and attributes of a man&rdquo;) with his war record offers new insights into how and why a particular soldier acted a certain way, in a certain situation, at a certain time. Nineteenth century combat was an unforgiving cauldron. In that hot fire some grew timid and listless, others demonstrated a tendency toward rashness, and the balance rose to the occasion and did their duty as they understood it. This book explores all of their individual stories. &ldquo;Does a good job of shining a bright light upon the great preponderance of highly placed citizen-generals in the Shiloh armies.&rdquo; &mdash;Civil War Books and Authors</div>

Larry Tagg
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Books By Larry Tagg (2 Books)

The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln

The Generals of Shiloh

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