Abraham Lincoln and the Second American RevolutionJames McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called history writing of the highest order. In that volume, McPherson gathered in the broad sweep of events, the political, social, and cultural forces at work during the Civil War era. Now, in Abraham Lincoln and the Second