Ways and means Lincoln and his cabinet and the financing of the Civil War
"In Ways and Means, journalist Roger Lowenstein reveals the unlikely story of how Abraham Lincoln used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet,...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Revolution completed
- Two crises
- Exigencies of war
- Ways and means
- The window shuts
- Legal tender
- Forgotten Congress
- Proclamation
- Chase's plan
- Cotton for cash
- Gettysburg summer
- Chase for President
- Roast mutton and partridge
- Exit secretary
- Staggering transformation
- Epilogue.
