Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Författare till The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Om författaren
Mark E. Neely, Jr., is McCabe-Greer Professor of the History of the Civil War Era at Pennsylvania State University.
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Verk av Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War (2011) 65 exemplar
Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism (1999) 59 exemplar
Lincoln and the Democrats: The Politics of Opposition in the Civil War (Cambridge Essential Histories) (2017) 12 exemplar
Associerade verk
"We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 35 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1995 (1995) — Co-Author "Portrait of a City Under Siege" — 18 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1992 (1992) — Co-Author "Theater for War: The Gettysburg Cyclorama" — 15 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1996 (1996) — Co-Author "Winslow Homer's Civil War" — 12 exemplar
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- Neely, Mark E., Jr.
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- Neely, Mark E., Jr.
- Födelsedag
- 1944
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- male
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Bell I. Wiley Prize
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- 20
- Även av
- 6
- Medlemmar
- 996
- Popularitet
- #25,871
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 7
- ISBN
- 45
- Språk
- 1
The book delves into the historiography of previous efforts to describe the event and concludes that most were deficient in several ways, mostly portraying Mary as the subject of unfair treatment by the medical profession and legal processes. The author's conclude that Mary was indeed mentally unbalanced and that the efforts to protect her from herself and from dissipating her estate by continued compulsive spending were justified.
The story is a bit dry as it delves deeply into the legal proceedings that surrounded the affair. It's a quick read and does give insights into this complex person.… (mer)