By Andrew P. Napolitano
The president's men trash the Constitution to pursue antagonists
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
The Civil War filled four years with death and destruction. Politicians on both sides vastly underestimated the human carnage from the conflict they were about to ignite. The Union was preserved, but at a cost of 620,000 dead.
In "Bloody Crimes," James Swanson describes well the twin journeys of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
Indeed, it is this process, he argues, that "transfigured Abraham Lincoln from man to myth."
