Thanks for the link Brent; I picked up a copy at the Civil War Trust event  
when I was down, but have not yet had a chance to read it.  It is certainly 
 a much bigger book than the earlier version that I have.
 
There is a new account out by Richard Slotkin on Antietam.  I know  that 
you aren't terribly interested in Civil War military history, at least  that's 
what I recall, but Slotkin focuses on George McClellan, and argues that  
the reason for his largely passive or at least slow response to Lee's 
invasion,  and then in the battle itself, was that he was trying to save his army as 
the  force that would allow him to march on Washington, overthrow Lincoln, 
and pull  off a coup d'etat.
 
He explains how Lincoln was able to deflect this move by Mac, turn the  
tactical draw on the battlefield to his and the Union's advantage, and then  
remove the general from command, for the rest of the war as it turned out.   
Argues that this crisis may have been Lincoln's most difficult, and his 
handling  of it his most brilliant.
 
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In a message dated 8/6/2012 10:36:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35523



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