Bøger af John F. Marszalek
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- Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House
498,95 kr. An investigation of the earliest political sex scandal in American history. During Andrew Jackson's first term in office, Margaret Eaton, the Secretary of State's wife, was branded a "loose woman". The book relates how this social controversy could so strongly influence the politics of the age.
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- 498,95 kr.
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- A Life of General Henry W. Halleck
565,95 kr. In the first comprehensive biography of Halleck, Marszalek recreates the life of a man of enormous achievement who bungled his most important mission. Unable to produce victory for the Union forces, he saw his power become subsumed by Grant's emergent leadership, a loss that paved the way for Halleck's path to obscurity.
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- 565,95 kr.
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188,95 kr. After his capture of Atlanta in 1864, Union General William T. Sherman mobilized 62,000 of his veteran troops and waged destructive war across Georgia, from Atlanta to Savannah. John F. Marszalek recounts the March's destructive details, analyzes William T. Sherman's strategy, and describes white and black southern reaction.
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- 188,95 kr.