Elusive Victories_ The American Presidency at War-Oxford University Press (2012)

72 e lusive v ictories infl uential Republicans in this dark period of military stalemate advised him to forsake emancipation, L ...

l incoln’s s hadow 73 his wartime assumption that the best alternatives for Reconstruction could be sorted out when the guns fel ...

74 e lusive v ictories one side, Republican Radicals wanted to ensure the thorough destruction of the antebellum southern econom ...

l incoln’s s hadow 75 Following the rebel bombardment of Fort Sumter, Lincoln took measures to deal with the widening crisis. As ...

76 e lusive v ictories detained without trial lived in Border States and might have had some connection to Confederate irregular ...

l incoln’s s hadow 77 whether slavery could be reestablished after the war, the president appreciated that he had likely dealt a ...

78 e lusive v ictories when the request came from a politician who might then owe the pres- ident a favor.)  Th e second just ...

l incoln’s s hadow 79 habeas corpus across the nation in 1862 on the thin pretext that the entire country was a war zone, the Co ...

80 e lusive v ictories On balance, Lincoln exercised his responsibility as a war leader with distinction, setting a very high st ...

l incoln’s s hadow 81 appropriate and can be achieved, how much progress has been made, and more. If Lincoln’s overall performan ...

82 e lusive v ictories case, too, that under the circumstances he faced in summer 1861, the civil liberties “limb” of habeas cor ...

83  Woodrow Wilson remains a controversial wartime leader. Nearly a century after the First World War, his performance still di ...

84 e lusive v ictories negotiated settlement, and lay the groundwork for a new kind of postwar order. His determination to assur ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 85 the civil liberties of groups and individuals who opposed the war that eclipsed anythin ...

86 e lusive v ictories Britain, France, and Russia), looked across the Atlantic to purchase munitions for their military forces ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 87 wife.)  Possibly the president recognized the long-term danger posed by a German drive ...

88 e lusive v ictories only limited interference with American sovereign rights.  W i t h London determined to curb trade with ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 89 their leader. One key actor with strong pro-British leanings was State Department Couns ...

90 e lusive v ictories submarine attacks, handing Wilson what appeared to be a major diplo- matic victory. Yet the terms under w ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 91 Wilson resumed his search for a negotiated peace, a quest that would continue until Ame ...