![]() ![]() Even before the Confederacy’s secession, the United States Treasury had run out of money. Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Lowenstein is a lucid stylist, able to explain financial matters to readers who lack specialized knowledge.” -Eric Foner, New York Times Book Reviewįrom renowned journalist and master storyteller Roger Lowenstein, a revelatory financial investigation into how Lincoln and his administration used the funding of the Civil War as the catalyst to centralize the government and accomplish the most far-reaching reform in the country’s history “ Ways and Means, an account of the Union’s financial policies, examines a subject long overshadowed by military narratives. ![]() makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House.” -Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal ![]()
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