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Overview

1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractured, squalid, colored by patriotism and treason, and deeply divided along the political lines that will soon embroil the nation in bloody conflict. Chaotic and corrupt, the young city is populated by bellicose congressmen, Confederate 
conspirators, and enterprising prostitutes. Soldiers of a volunteer army swing from the dome of the Capitol, assassins stalk the avenues, and Abraham Lincoln struggles to justify his presidency as the Union heads to war. 
  Reveille in Washington focuses on the everyday politics and preoccupations of Washington during the Civil War. From the stench of corpse-littered streets to the plunging lace on Mary Lincoln’s evening gowns, Margaret Leech illuminates the city and its familiar figures—among them Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, William Seward, and Mary Surratt—in intimate and fascinating detail. 
   Leech’s book remains widely recognized as both an impressive feat of scholarship and an uncommonly engrossing work of history.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781590174463
  • Publisher: New York Review Books
  • Publication date: 6/7/2011
  • Pages: 624
  • Sales rank: 233,219
  • Series: New York Review Books Classics Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.27 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 1.26 (d)

Meet the Author

Margaret Leech (1893–1974) was an American historian, novelist and dramatist. She twice received the Pulitzer Prize in history, for Reveille in Washington (1942) and In the Days of McKinley (1960); with the former she became the first woman to receive a Pulitzer in that category.
 
James McPherson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. His other bestselling books include For Cause and Comrades, Drawn with the Sword, What They Fought For; Gettysburg; and Fields of Fury. A professor at Princeton University, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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  • Posted June 4, 2011

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    A Unique Page-Turner Breathes Life into Civil War Washington, D.C.

    When I initially bought this non-fiction look at the nation's Capitol I anticipated a factual, but potentially plodding work. Wrong! After my first read I decided to add it to my Civil War book collection and found an autographed hardback that I enjoy reading again every year or two. Published in 1941, it's easy to see why this book earned the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1942. Her book is highly engaging, providing a fresh and unique look at the nation's capitol and the men and women who helped transform this sleepy Southern backwater into the powerful and vibrant city we are familiar with today. The "reveille" in the title has several meanings. Reveille is first a reference to the city's awakening from peace to war. It's also a reference to the bureaucratic and military power that characterized the city during and after the Civil War. In 1861, Washington was surrounded by slave-holding states and the institution was legal in the city itself. Here too you will find insights into the era's intrigues and politics. You'll meet the highly egotistical Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase and his debutante daughter Kate, the Princess Di of her time; the pompous Gen. George G. McClellan, who considered President Lincoln an interfering and inferior "ape"; and Sen. Henry Wilson, a powerful politician who was a key source of military secrets he thoughtlessly shared in bed with Rose Greenhow, a known Southern sympathizer. I highly recommend this fascinating and well-written book!

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    I bought this as a gift for my daughter in law, who is a civil war buff. I understood that this is the definitive book on the CW in the DC area, which is where they live. She was thrilled to receive it, and I will expect that she will let me know more after she reads it.
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