Ways and Means : : Lincoln and his Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
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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.
"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, and his congress, changed the direction of the country"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, 2022.
Year Published: 2022
Description: 432 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780735223554
0735223556
SUBJECTS
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865.
United States -- Economic aspects. -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- Finance. -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865.
United States -- History -- 1849-1877.