As I said, I'm trying to fill gaps in my US history knowledge so I watched Ken Burns' Civil War. My main takeaways are that Lincoln was an amazing man except for his military appointing skills and that I really want to learn more about Sherman and Fredrick Douglas.
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I still haven't got to that myself; mean to, but having read the Chernow & Brands bios that draw on it, it's not on my immediate list.
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Also heard good things about John Stauffer's "Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln."
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