Abstract
Is there still a need for another book on the U.S. Civil War? Joseph Fry, a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, makes a compelling case for it by emphasizing the unlikely partnership of President Abraham Lincoln and his political rival, Secretary of State William H. Seward, that surmounted a succession of early military defeats and won the war by remarkable achievements in foreign affairs. They also had a capable staff to carry out policies abroad, mainly by keeping Great Britain and France from interfering in the war on behalf of the South. The Confederacy, though superior in military leadership in the early years, lacked both such a partnership and the diplomatic experience to back it up. Fry’s book invites comparison with another recent one on the same subject, Howard Jones’s Blue & Gray Diplomacy, which is cited by Fry a number of times.1...
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