The Ten Year War: What if Lincoln Had Not Exited After Four Years?

Reviewing Gregory P. Downs, After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War (Harvard University Press 2015), George Kateb, Lincoln's Political Thought (Harvard University Press 2015), and Louis P. Masur, Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion (Oxford University Press 2015).