David E. Long, The Jewel of Liberty, 1st ed., Signed

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David E. Long’s The Jewel of Liberty views Abraham Lincoln’s 1864 presidential campaign and election as the death knell of Slavery on America.

By the summer of 1864 even Abraham Lincoln himself feared that he might not be able to achieve re-election. If Lincoln did not win, as he and the Confederates knew, Lincoln’s successor, a Democrat, would not be willing to prosecute the war further. If a new president sued for peace the South would have won by not losing.

In this provocative book Dr. David E. Long is the first historian to investigate deeply the events of 1864 that eventually produced the November electoral result that re-elected Lincoln and cemented emancipation. Never in our past has the nature and future of the nation depended so much on the ballot box, for within that box truly lay The Jewel of Liberty.

Near fine; dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author.

Long, David E. THE JEWEL OF LIBERTY: ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S RE-ELECTION AND THE END OF SLAVERY. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 1994. 1st edition, 368p., illustrations, dust jacket.