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"No American president has enjoyed as intimate a relationship with the soldiers in his army as did the man they called ""Father Abraham."" In Lincoln's Men, historian William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries--the voices of the volunteers--to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president became ""Father"" throughout both the army and the North as a whole. How did Lincoln inspire the faith and courage of so many shattered men, as they wandered the inferno of Shiloh or were entrenched in the siege of Vicksburg? Why did soldiers visiting Washington feel free to stroll into the White House as if it were their own home? In this thorough and authoritative work, Davis removes layers of mythmaking to recapture the real moods and feelings of an army facing one of history's bloodiest conflicts. Lincoln's Men casts a new light on our most famous president and on America's revolution--on our country's father and its rebirth."

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"""Amid a continuing avalanche of books about the Civil War, William C. Davis's Lincoln's Men is in a class of its own."" -- ""Boston Globe"" ""Dramatic, moving, informative, human to the core, this study is historical reporting at its best."" -- ""Richmond Times-Dispatch """

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"William Charles ""Jack"" Davis is a retired history professor who taught at Virginia Tech. An acclaimed expert on the Civil War, he has served on a number of advisory boards, including the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, the Civil War Preservation Trust, the Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Virginia, the National Park Service, as well as on the Lincoln Prize and Pulitzer Prize nominating juries. Grover Gardner has recorded more than 650 audiobooks since beginning his career in 1981. He's been named one of the ""Best Voices of the Century"" as well as a ""Golden Voice"" by AudioFile magazine. Gardner has garnered over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and is the recipient of an Audio Publishers Association Audie Award, as well as a three-time finalist. In 2005, Publishers Weekly deemed him ""Audiobook Narrator of the Year."" Gardner has also narrated hundreds of audiobooks under the names Tom Parker and Alexander Adams. Among his many titles are Marcus Sakey's At the City's Edge, as well as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and John Irving's The Cider House Rules. Gardner studied Theater and Art History at Rollins College and received a Master's degree in Acting from George Washington University. He lives in Oregon with his significant other and daughter."

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