{"product_id":"lincolns-peace-the-struggle-to-end-the-american-civil-war-hardcover","title":"Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Vorenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne historian's journey to find the end of the Civil War--and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and peace\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe set out on the James River, March 25, 1865, aboard the paddle steamboat \u003ci\u003eRiver Queen.\u003c\/i\u003e President Lincoln is on his way to General Grant's headquarters at City Point, Virginia, and he's decided he won't return to Washington until he's witnessed, or perhaps even orchestrated, the end of the Civil War. Now, it turns out, more than a century and a half later, historians are still searching for that end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWas it April 9, at Appomattox, as conventional wisdom holds, where Lee surrendered to Grant in Wilmer McLean's parlor? Or was it ten weeks afterward, in Galveston, where a federal commander proclaimed Juneteenth the end of slavery? Or perhaps in August of 1866, when President Andrew Johnson simply declared \"the insurrection is at an end\"? That the answer was elusive was baffling even to a historian of the stature of Michael Vorenberg, whose work served as a key source of Steven Spielberg's \u003ci\u003eLincoln\u003c\/i\u003e. Vorenberg was inspired to write this groundbreaking book, finding its title in the peace Lincoln hoped for but could not make before his assassination. A peace that required not one but many endings, as Vorenberg reveals in these pages, the most important of which came well more than a year after Lincoln's untimely death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo say how a war ends is to suggest how it should be remembered, and Vorenberg's search is not just for the Civil War's endpoint but for its true nature and legacy, so essential to the American identity. It's also a quest, in our age of \"forever wars,\" to understand whether the United States's interminable conflicts of the current era have a precedent in the Civil War--and whether, in a sense, wars ever end at all, or merely wax and wane.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMICHAEL VORENBERG is a professor of history at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFinal Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize and a key source for Steven Spielberg's 2012 film, \u003ci\u003eLincoln\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emancipation Proclamation: A Brief History with Documents\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a number of essays on slavery, emancipation, and the U.S. Constitution. His writings have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolitico\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.7 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978195829037,"sku":"9781524733179","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/tMMhqPfiPn9781524733179.webp?v=1775800958","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/lincolns-peace-the-struggle-to-end-the-american-civil-war-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}