Summary
"From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of Waris a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict a... Full description
- Torrent of passion
- Man of straw
- The most glorious war
- The country is almost ours
- A presidential war
- Fort Sumter
- Blood flowing all about me
- Maine blown up
- We must keep what we want
- The world is on fire
- Salvation of mankind
- How could this have happened?
- The survival war
- I am going to let them have it
- I didn't ask their permission
- We got slapped
- I don't see any way of winning.