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Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State

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By (author): Brian McGinty

The ties that bound Abraham Lincoln to California, and California to Lincoln, have long been overlooked by historians. Although the great Civil War president has been the subject of thousands of books, his important relationship with the Western state, both before and during the warthe part it played in bringing on the great conflict and the help it gave him in winning ithave been little described and imperfectly understood. In Lincoln and California Brian McGinty explains the relationship between the president and the Golden State, describing important events that took place in California and elsewhere during Lincolns lifetime. He includes the histories of Lincolns close friends and personal acquaintances who made history as they went to California, lived there, and helped to keep it part of the imperiled Union.

McGinty demonstrates that California was in large part responsible for beginning the Civil War, as the principal purpose of its conquest in the Mexican War was to acquire land into which the Southern states could extend their cotton-growing and slaveholding empire. The decision of Californias first voters to exclude slavery from the state but to enact virulently racist legislation encouraged Southerners hope that, if they established a separate republic, it would become an independent slave nation with the power to extend its territory to the Pacific coast of North America and into the Caribbean and Latin America. Lincolns opposition to their plans unleashed the Civil War.

As the struggle played out, however, the hopes of the proslavery Confederates were ultimately defeated because California played a vital role in helping Lincoln save the Union. Lincoln and California shines new light on an important state, a pivotal president, and a turning point in American history.
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Oct 2023
  • Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781640126060

About Brian McGinty

Brian McGinty is the award-winning author of twelve books including Lincolns Greatest Case: The River the Bridge and the Making of America; Lincoln and the Court; and John Browns Trial and more than two hundred articles on American history the American West and American legal history.  

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