Lincoln in the World : The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power

from WCHagen

This is a worthwhile read for all students of Abraham Lincoln. It offers a look into his life from a different perspective-his interaction with foreign nations and how he was seen from abroad. The interactions range from influencing the actions of other countries, reacting to international pressu...

from cblaker

Kevin Peraino's book on the foreign policy of Abraham Lincoln is a necessary compliment to the volumes and volumes of book on the battles and generals of the Civil War. The intervention of one or more of European nations would have decisively changed the course of the war in the Confederacy's fav...

from 5hrdrive

Number one, Europe stayed out of the war. Number two, Europe never recognized the Confederacy as a sovereign nation. Number three, he steered the Union clear of any misadventures in Canada or Mexico. That's all that needs to be said about the success of Lincoln as a statesman, and it doesn't take...

from btuckertx

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power. Like most people, I've generally thought of Lincoln in terms of Commander-In-Chief during the Civil War, the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, and his assassination. I ...

from fuzzy_patters

I think that most Americans probably know a lot about Lincoln's domestic policy. A book about Lincoln's foreign policy, however, is something different, and I liked it. Peraino shows how Lincoln adeptly managed competing forces to keep the US away from foreign entanglements in order to focus on t...