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The 20 Most Significant Events of the Civil War: A Ranking

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內容簡介 This is the first book to not only select the events that most influenced the causes and outcome of America’s Civil War, but also to rank them in order of significance. In each of the book’s 20 detailed essays, author historian speaker Alan Axelrod presents an engaging narrative about the event, and also explains how the event shaped the course of the war, and ultimately the future of the country.The author’s selection and ranking criteria include:Effect as cause or trigger of the warDecisiveness: whether it was a war-winning or war-losing event (both in military terms and in terms of public opinion, morale, and support)Magnitude and scope: size and cost of a battleEnduring postwar significance in American history, politics, society, culture and or in military history and technologyFrom Lincoln’s Inauguration, Antietam, and John Brown’s raid, to the New York draft riots and Stonewall Jackson dying as a result of friendly fire – never before has the Civil War been explored quite this way. The Civil War was a violent argument between the North and the South. The purpose of this book is to start another argument about its history.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Alan Axelrod, PhD is the author of more than 144 books on history, leadership, management, and other nonfiction. His titles include The Complete Idiot�s Guide to the Civil War, The Complete Idiot�s Guide to American History, The Real History of the Civil War, and Patton on Leadership. He lectures extensively on these topics and others. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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