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When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance,that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model of democracy,…
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As soon as I encountered Don Doyle’s elegant formulation of the Civil War’s “public diplomacy,” I knew it would move future accounts of the 1860s in exciting new directions. That seemingly simple term, offered as a key concept for the book as a whole, drew into focus how advocates of North and South shaped the overseas responses to Americans’ military conflagration.
Its fast-paced series of chapters provided me a newfound appreciation for the relatively understudied responses of the French, Italian, and German publics.
With strikingly clear prose, the book helped me understand how a transfixing North American war spurred a…
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