{"title":"Ronald C. White","description":"Ronald C. White is the New York Times bestselling author of biographies A. Lincoln and American Ulysses, as well as three other books on Lincoln, most recently Lincoln in Private. White earned his PhD at Princeton, has lectured at the White House, and has spoken about Lincoln across the world. He is a senior fellow of The Trinity Forum in Washington, D.C.","products":[{"product_id":"lincolns-greatest-speech-the-second-inaugural-paperback","title":"Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the day for Lincoln's second inauguration drew near, Americans wondered what their sixteenth president would say about the Civil War. Would Lincoln guide the nation toward \"Reconstruction\"? What about the slaves? They had been emancipated, but what about the matter of suffrage?When Lincoln finally stood before his fellow countrymen on March 4, 1865, and had only 703 words to share, the American public was stunned. The President had not offered the North a victory speech, nor did he excoriate the South for the sin of slavery. Instead, he called the whole country guilty of the sin and pleaded for reconciliation and unity. In this compelling account, noted historian Ronald C. White Jr. shows how Lincoln's speech was initially greeted with confusion and hostility by many in the Union; commended by the legions of African Americans in attendance, abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass among them; and ultimately appropriated by his assassin John Wilkes Booth forty-one days later. Filled with all the facts and factors surrounding the Second Inaugural, Lincoln's Greatest Speech is both an important historical document and a thoughtful analysis of Lincoln's moral and rhetorical genius.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366078021855,"sku":"9780743299626","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Swa_M8k2h79780743299626.webp?v=1789080788"},{"product_id":"on-great-fields-joshua-lawrence-chamberlain-and-his-fight-to-save-the-union-paperback","title":"On Great Fields: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and His Fight to Save the Union - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of \u003ci\u003eA. Lincoln \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAmerican Ulysses\u003c\/i\u003e comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in the preservation of the Union and therefore in the making of modern America.\"--Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAnd There Was Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN LINCOLN PRIZE AND THE AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST BOOK PRIZE FOR HISTORY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North's greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate charge down a rocky slope that routed the Confederate attackers. Despite being wounded at Petersburg--and told by two surgeons he would die--Chamberlain survived the war, going on to be elected governor of Maine four times and serve as president of Bowdoin College. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow did a stuttering young boy come to be fluent in nine languages and even teach speech and rhetoric? How did a trained minister find his way to the battlefield? Award-winning historian Ronald C. White delves into these contradictions in this cradle-to-grave biography of General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, from his upbringing in rural Maine to his tenacious, empathetic military leadership and his influential postwar public service, exploring a question that still plagues so many veterans: How do you make a civilian life of meaning after having experienced the extreme highs and lows of war? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChamberlain is familiar to millions from Michael Shaara's now-classic novel of the Civil War, \u003ci\u003eThe Killer Angels\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ken Burns's timeless miniseries \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War, \u003c\/i\u003ebut in this book\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e White captures the complex and inspiring man behind the hero\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHeavily illustrated and featuring nine detailed maps, this gripping, impeccably researched portrait illuminates one of the most admired but least known figures in our nation's bloodiest conflict.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368241266911,"sku":"9780525510109","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qyQgtP9pSE9780525510109.webp?v=1789125090"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/ronald-c-white.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}