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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 09 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Fred Sullivan. |
| Summary |
Thomas B. Allen's expertise in military history and strategy is combined with Roger MacBride Allen's knowledge of technology to reveal a lesser known yet fascinating side of the sixteenth president of the United States. Their authoritative narrative reveals Lincolnas our nation's first hands-on commander in chief, whose appreciation for thepower of technology plays a critical role in the North's Civil War victory overthe less developed South.We meet Lincoln as he exchanges vitaltelegraph messages with his generals in the field; we witness his inspection ofnew ship models at the navy yard; we view the president target shooting withthe designer of a new kind of rifle; and we follow Lincoln, the man of action,as he leads a daring raid to recapture Norfolk, Virginia. The book's historicsweep also sets Abraham Lincoln in the context of his military era: we learnabout the North's Anaconda Plan and the South's counter strategies and how theconcept of total war replaced the old Napoleonic way of fighting.Readers will come away with a rich sense of aleader who lived through one of the most exciting ages of technological andsocial change in America. Mr. Lincoln'sHigh-Tech War brings alive a time when the railroad brought soldiers to andfrom the battlefields, when hot-air balloons were used for surveillance, andwhen ironclad warships revolutionized naval warfare. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile literature.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Juvenile literature.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Technology -- Juvenile literature.
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Technology -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
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Allen, Roger MacBride.
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Sullivan, Fred. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982491130 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982491132 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT11024695 |
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