My Lists
Featured Lists
Touched with fire
five presidents and the Civil War battles that made them
By Perry, James L.
- ISBN
- 978-1-58648-114-8
- Publisher
- New York : PublicAffairs, 2003.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2003
Just how the mayhem and carnage of battle affected the men who have held the White House has been explored for some presidents (e.g., Washington, Eisenhower) but not all. The five men who witnessed combat firsthand during the Civil War-Garfield, Grant, Harrison, Hayes, and McKinley-are given their due in this book by Perry, a journalist and author of five other books on the Civil War. Of the five men selected...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
