Bøger af Allan Nevins

The brilliant historian of the mid-twentieth century, Allan Nevins, introduces this volume of correspondence by and to James Truslow Adams with a summary of his life and importance

"When Colonel Charles S. Wainwright (1826--1907), later a brevet brigadier general, was commissioned in the First New York Artillery Regiment of the Army of the Potomac in October 1861, he began a journ"

One of the most controversial and romantic figures in American history, John C Fremont experienced a dizzying succession of public triumphs and humiliations. This work gives Fremont full credit for his achievements as a topographer, soldier, and politician while noting how often his rashness attracted enemies and led to his downfall.