The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (KURLANSKY/CH) codori now in the White House

now in the White House

including in-depth analysis of never before published images and harrowing accounts of heroism in the fight to save the Union

levying taxes and marketing bonds while desperately battling to contain wartime inflation

and his own inner demons

The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (KURLANSKY/CH) codori now in the White HouseHas there ever been good violence or a good war? The American Civil War is likely considered to be so since there seemed to be no alternative. Or was there? Before the war, Bostonian abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison correctly predicted that fighting would not bring about real freedom and justice. If emancipation came about through violence, he believed, it would take at least a century for Black people to get their rights. As we now know, it has