Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War (Roger Lowenstein - LP) leadership including a Russian Archduke

including a Russian Archduke

a close look at Lincoln’s activities and writings from January 1 through April 14

both personally and professionally

passage of the Thirteenth Amendment

Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War (Roger Lowenstein - LP) leadership including a Russian Archdukeby Roger Lowenstein Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Even before the Confederacys secession, the United States Treasury had run out of money. The government had no authority to raise taxes, no federal bank, no currency. But amid unprecedented troubles Lincoln saw opportunitythe chance to legislate in the centralizing spirit of the more perfect union that had first drawn him to politics. With Lincoln