‘Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War,’ by Roger Lowenstein was named one of the Washington Post’s “best” works of history for 2022. The book explores how the Union war effort was successfully funded in the 1860s. Here is what the Washington Post says:
The Civil War remade America — and paying for it remade the American financial system. Business writer Lowenstein draws on decades of scholarship to tell the story of how that transformation played out.
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