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Two new Lincoln books out this month
03-01-2022, 04:19 PM
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Two new Lincoln books out this month
(and very different they are)(Summary info from New York Times)

Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War, by Roger Lowenstein (Penguin Press, March 8)
Lowenstein explores an aspect of the Civil War often overlooked by other histories: the Union’s financial policies, including how they continued to shape a Reconstruction-era America and beyond.

Booth, by Karen Joy Fowler (Putnam, March 8)
An imaginative new novel offers glimpses of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s killer, and his family, told chiefly through the perspectives of some of his nine siblings. The Booths — headed by Junius, a mercurial Shakespearean actor — were a liberal, vegetarian, antislavery family, and Fowler sets their personal drama and conflict during the years heading up to the Civil War.
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03-01-2022, 06:48 PM
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RE: Two new Lincoln books out this month
Thank you Tom. They do sound interesting!

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