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“A masterful psychological portrait” (George Stephanopoulos) of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.
On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention to free the slaves. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, doing precisely that. In between, however, was a tumultuous six months, an episode during which the sixteenth president fought bitterly with his generals, disappointed his cabinet, and sank into painful bouts of clinical depression. Most surprising, the man who would be remembered as “The Great Emancipator” did not hold firm to his belief in emancipation. He agonized over the decision and was wracked by private doubts almost to the moment when he inked the decree that would change a nation. It was a great gamble, with the future of the Union, of slavery, and of the presidency itself hanging in the balance.
In this compelling narrative, Todd Brewster focuses on this crucial time period to ask: was it through will or by accident, intention or coincidence, personal achievement or historical determinism that he freed the slaves? “Brewster brings elegant clarity to the tangle of conflicting ideologies, loyalties, and practicalities that pushed the proclamation forward” (Publishers Weekly), portraying the president as an imperfect man with an unshakable determination to save a country he believed in, even as the course of the Civil War remained unknown.
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“Journalist Brewster presents an interesting exploration into what was going on in Lincoln’s mind and life during the time before the signing….Of value to anyone interested in this great event in US history.” (Choice magazine)
“Brewster gets inside Abraham Lincoln’s mind, revealing his struggles with the limited powers of his office. Here is Lincoln, the man, surprisingly ambivalent about the decision for which he is most remembered. A masterful psychological portrait.” (George Stephanopoulos )
“Brewster brings elegant clarity to the tangle of conflicting ideologies, loyalties, and practicalities that pushed the proclamation forward, ultimately ensuring Lincoln’s legacy as the Great Emancipator.” (Publishers Weekly)
"In this historical essay about the Emancipation Proclamation, Brewster explores the six months between Lincoln’s July 1862 decision to issue it and actually doing so in January 1863. Inspired by a 1922 article on Lincoln by W. E. B. DuBois, the purpose of which was to portray Lincoln as great but imperfect, Brewster sets as his goal a quest for the “real” Lincoln... Featuring vignettes of figures who met Lincoln during his formulation of the proclamation, Brewster’s work illuminates Lincoln’s lines of thought during this turning point in American history." (Booklist)
“Brewster gets inside Abraham Lincoln’s mind, revealing his struggles with the limited powers of his office. Here is Lincoln, the man, surprisingly ambivalent about the decision for which he is most remembered. A masterful psychological portrait.” (George Stephanopoulos )
“Readers of this expertly-told tale may note parallels to other times in American history when the lack of a clear mission hampered war efforts. Yet this, finally, is a story of courage and leadership, a stirring account of how Lincoln, perhaps our greatest warrior-president, took firm control of the war, gave clear direction to his generals and, with his historic proclamation, established a purpose worthy of the sacrifices so many made in that epic American ordeal.” (H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam )
“This story has been told before, but never as well, with such a firm grasp of the revolutionary implications of Lincoln’s decision, or the multi-layered levels of Lincoln’s quite tortured thought process. Although Lincoln is the most written about figure in American history, Brewster’s book is a major entry in the Lincoln sweepstakes.” (Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers )
“It’s hard to act from strength and a higher moral conviction when the war you’re waging is not going well. But in this wonderful study, Todd Brewster authoritatively evokes the strategy of our best president to change the terms of the Civil War and thereby the destiny of his nation.” (Ken Burns )
“Mr.Brewster has pulled off his task with aplomb. He navigates a clear path through conflicting accounts, giving us the context necessary to understand why the Proclamation was just so difficult for Lincoln to write….Mr. Brewster’s greatest achievement in this book is to bring nuance back to a story that is often paved over with heroism….Mr. Brewster has done a good job at transforming Lincoln from an American saint back into a man.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
“A readable and heavily researched account.” (Civil War Times)
“Brewster gets inside Abraham Lincoln’s mind, revealing his struggles with the limited powers of his office. Here is Lincoln, the man, surprisingly ambivalent about the decision for which he is most remembered. A masterful psychological portrait.” (George Stephanopoulos )
“Journalist Brewster presents an interesting exploration into what was going on in Lincoln’s mind and life during the time before the signing….Of value to anyone interested in this great event in US history.” (Choice magazine)
“Mr.Brewster has pulled off his task with aplomb. He navigates a clear path through conflicting accounts, giving us the context necessary to understand why the Proclamation was just so difficult for Lincoln to write….Mr. Brewster’s greatest achievement in this book is to bring nuance back to a story that is often paved over with heroism….Mr. Brewster has done a good job at transforming Lincoln from an American saint back into a man.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
“A readable and heavily researched account.” (Civil War Times)
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“Brewster brings elegant clarity to the tangle of conflicting ideologies, loyalties, and practicalities that pushed the proclamation forward, ultimately ensuring Lincoln’s legacy as the Great Emancipator.” (Publishers Weekly)
"In this historical essay about the Emancipation Proclamation, Brewster explores the six months between Lincoln’s July 1862 decision to issue it and actually doing so in January 1863. Inspired by a 1922 article on Lincoln by W. E. B. DuBois, the purpose of which was to portray Lincoln as great but imperfect, Brewster sets as his goal a quest for the “real” Lincoln... Featuring vignettes of figures who met Lincoln during his formulation of the proclamation, Brewster’s work illuminates Lincoln’s lines of thought during this turning point in American history." (Booklist)
“Brewster gets inside Abraham Lincoln’s mind, revealing his struggles with the limited powers of his office. Here is Lincoln, the man, surprisingly ambivalent about the decision for which he is most remembered. A masterful psychological portrait.” (George Stephanopoulos)
“Readers of this expertly-told tale may note parallels to other times in American history when the lack of a clear mission hampered war efforts. Yet this, finally, is a story of courage and leadership, a stirring account of how Lincoln, perhaps our greatest warrior-president, took firm control of the war, gave clear direction to his generals and, with his historic proclamation, established a purpose worthy of the sacrifices so many made in that epic American ordeal.” (H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam)
“This story has been told before, but never as well, with such a firm grasp of the revolutionary implications of Lincoln’s decision, or the multi-layered levels of Lincoln’s quite tortured thought process. Although Lincoln is the most written about figure in American history, Brewster’s book is a major entry in the Lincoln sweepstakes.” (Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers)
“It’s hard to act from strength and a higher moral conviction when the war you’re waging is not going well. But in this wonderful study, Todd Brewster authoritatively evokes the strategy of our best president to change the terms of the Civil War and thereby the destiny of his nation.” (Ken Burns)
“Mr.Brewster has pulled off his task with aplomb. He navigates a clear path through conflicting accounts, giving us the context necessary to understand why the Proclamation was just so difficult for Lincoln to write….Mr. Brewster’s greatest achievement in this book is to bring nuance back to a story that is often paved over with heroism….Mr. Brewster has done a good job at transforming Lincoln from an American saint back into a man.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
“A readable and heavily researched account.” (Civil War Times)
“Journalist Brewster presents an interesting exploration into what was going on in Lincoln’s mind and life during the time before the signing….Of value to anyone interested in this great event in US history.” (Choice magazine)
About the Author
Todd Brewster has served as Don E. Ackerman Director of Oral History at the United States Military Academy, West Point, and is a longtime journalist who has worked as an editor for Time and Life and as senior producer for ABC News. He has written for Vanity Fair, Time, Life, The Huffington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, and is the coauthor with the late Peter Jennings of the bestselling books The Century, The Century for Young People, and In Search of America. He lives with his wife and two sons in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Lincoln’s Gamble is his first book.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
A slice of Lincoln
By TChris
More than 23,000 books have been written about President Lincoln, attesting to the important role he plays in the American imagination. Todd Brewster notes that some biographers of Lincoln have revered him as the second coming of Christ while others have portrayed him as a devious scoundrel.
Lincoln's Gamble is not a biography. Brewster calls it an attempt to discover the "real" Lincoln by focusing on a slice of his presidency. It succeeds at least to the extent of revealing an important slice of the "real" Lincoln. Brewster paints Lincoln during the last half of 1862 as complex and conflicted, principled and pragmatic, a fence-sitter at war with himself before his better nature triumphed.
The first half of the book describes the ambivalent path to the Emancipation Proclamation that Lincoln traveled (in the words of Frederick Douglass) "in his own peculiar, cautious, forbearing and hesitating way." Much of the second half addresses Lincoln's approach to the war, his frustration with his generals, his determination to shift the Union's strategy from defense to offense, and his final (albeit limited) decision to free Confederate slaves.
Brewster emphasizes Lincoln's deliberate and lawyerly approach to emancipation. On one hand, while Lincoln shared the prevailing racism of his time, he believed that the core American values of liberty and equality were antithetical to slavery. Despite his belief in equal rights, he plainly did not view black Americans as morally or intellectually equal to white Americans. His preferred outcome would have been an end to slavery while encouraging former slaves to find a new country in which to dwell. On the other hand, Lincoln's foremost concern, as Brewster sees it, was to save the Union. Whether emancipation would further or hinder that goal was a question that constantly vexed him. Had Lincoln been able to negotiate an end to the rebellion by phasing out slavery over several decades while compensating slave owners for their losses, Brewster makes clear that he would have jumped at that chance, his personal opposition to slavery notwithstanding.
Brewster argues that the connection between slavery and the Civil War was critical to Lincoln. Lincoln's reluctance to proclaim an immediate end to slavery was based in part upon his recognition that the Southern economy was dependent upon it. Later, when the war was not going well for the Union, Lincoln concluded that damaging the economy of the South by freeing slaves might hasten a favorable end to the rebellion. Yet even then he feared that freeing slaves would prolong the war and might lead to continued violence both by and against former slaves. It was thus with an ambivalent mixture of resolve and uncertainty that he signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.
The concept of emancipation by presidential proclamation also troubled Lincoln because freeing slaves was arguably beyond his authority. Lincoln recognized that the Constitution, without using the words slave or master, sanctioned slavery by requiring the return of fugitive "laborers" to the "party" to whom their labor was due. Although not using the express term, the Constitution plainly regarded slaves as property. By what legal (as opposed to moral) authority can the president deprive people of their property without compensation and due process of law? While Lincoln (as opposed to Stephen Douglas) did not accept the notion that "state's rights" included the right to enslave, Brewster argues that Lincoln felt an obligation to uphold the law as it was embodied in the Constitution.
Lincoln resolved the dilemma by tying emancipation to the president's constitutional war power authority, a bold but questionable judgment. Moreover, because Lincoln's justification for freeing slaves applied only to states in rebellion and would no longer apply in states that laid down their arms, the Emancipation Proclamation purported to free slaves in Confederate states, but not to end slavery. It took a constitutional amendment for that to happen.
Brewster argues that Lincoln's fretting about the language and legal justification for emancipation was, in the end, largely irrelevant to supporters of abolition, who saw the proclamation as a moral statement rather than the careful legal document that Lincoln drafted. Regardless of (and perhaps contrary to) Lincoln's intent, the proclamation changed the war from an effort to save the Union to a war of liberation. In the end, Lincoln's justification of emancipation as a military necessity proved prophetic, as the loss of slaves sapped the Confederacy's strength while adding thousands of fresh soldiers to the Union's forces.
I'm not sure Lincoln's Gamble adds new insight to Lincoln's character, but after 23,000 Lincoln books, I doubt that would be possible. Lincoln's Gamble is nevertheless full of interesting facts. None of the book's digressions (a brief history of slavery, profiles of various individuals who may have influenced the president's thinking, the role science played in justifying nineteenth century racism, the uncertain evidence of Lincoln's religious beliefs) come across as padding or filler.
The book is balanced. Brewster does not shy away from Lincoln's character flaws or from the damage he did when he made poor decisions (particularly the suspension of habeas corpus). At the same time, he is respectful of the difficult choices Lincoln made during a critical six months in the nation's history. As a good historian should, Brewster relies largely upon contemporary sources and quotes them freely while taking care to evaluate their credibility. He makes clear distinctions between facts that are almost certainly true and those (such as where and when Lincoln began writing the Emancipation Proclamation) that are subject to doubt. Yet his lively narrative does not bog down in the nit-picking of history. He calls upon art and literature to help the reader understand the war and its impact on the nation. Brewster's tone is casual rather than academic, making it easy reading for lay readers (like me) who want to learn something new without wading through dense and dry tomes.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
If only all historical scholarship was written so well...
By bgrebel
This is a work of impressive historical scholarship that reads like a novel. The always-entertaining narrative is held together by a careful analytical discussion of Lincoln's changing views about slavery during the first two years of the war.
Overall, this is an outstanding book that takes a fresh look at Abraham Lincoln--as a politician and a human being--during one of the most decisive moments of American history. Historians and laymen alike will find Brewster's work satisfying and thought-provoking.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
I am a history buff that looks for pleasure and ...
By Mary Caye
I am a history buff that looks for pleasure and inspiration primarily in American history and biography. Mr. Brewster's portrayal of Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation gestation brings to life Lincoln the man as a masterful politician. He is at once heroic and flawed, decisive and speaking out of both sides of his mouth. The book covers a short six months of 1862 during the depths of despair as the Union forces lose battle after battle with horrific casualties on both sides and everyone is a critic. While we know how the story ends, Mr. Brewster manages to spin the yarn into a breezily written page turner using the tick tock of time to propel the story forward. Most enjoyable!
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