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Cargando... Lincoln's Informer: Charles A. Dana and the Inside Story of the Union Warpor Carl J. Guarneri
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The subject of this book had about as interesting a personal career as one could possibly imagine. Dana started out as a Brook Farm social reformer, before becoming Horace Greeley's right-hand man at the New York "Tribune," than achieving a certain notoriety as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton's field operative, only to go on to be his own boss, and achieve serious notoriety, as the publisher of the New York "Sun," and, apparently, repudiating everything he worked for during the Civil War. The impression that I come away with from this book is that Dana was willing to give his loyalty, but also was one of those people who just thought they knew better what was really going on, and who didn't betray much introspection; messianic might not be a bad one-word description. If nothing else this book is now the go-to study of Dana's life, as his supposed memoir (ghost-written by Ida Tarbell) is, to put it mildly, problematic. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Lincoln's Spy follows the Civil War career of Charles A. Dana, who began the war as managing editor of the New York Tribune and was hired by Abraham Lincoln and War Secretary Edwin Stanton to be the government's roving troubleshooter and confidential informant at the front. Carl Guarneri tracks Dana's experiences, with plenty of never-before-examined sources and events, to provide a panorama of the war, with special emphasis on decisions about strategy and generals, Lincoln's war leadership, organizing victory at the War Department, and undercover operations related to spies, political lobbying, and the contraband trade"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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