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This New York Times best retailer from observed historian and acclaimed writer Jay Winik forever changes common perceptions of the ultimate month of the American Civil War. April 1865 could have destroyed the nation. Instead it preserved it. As Apr begins, the battered Confederate capital of Richmond falls to the Union Army. Robert E. Lee surrenders his pushes to Ulysses S. Give at Appomattox one week later. In good spirits and sensing the war's end, Chief executive Abraham Lincoln attends a comedic play - and is also assassinated. Together, Secretary of Status William Seward is brutally attacked but survives. Along with fears that staying Confederate troops will break right into guerrilla rings, these events threaten to plunge America into turmoil. But it is never to be. Winik's engrossing narrative sweeps listeners along in one incredible moment to another until, remarkably, serenity is come to. A provocative and deeply researched consideration, this modern old classic is a major reassessment of the 30 most pivotal days in United States history.
