Lincoln and the triumph of the nation [electronic resource] : constitutional conflict in the American Civil War / Mark E. Neely Jr.

"The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confede...

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