Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War (Roger Lowenstein - LP) socks ”―Jill Lepore

”―Jill Lepore

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Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War (Roger Lowenstein - LP) socks ”―Jill Leporeby Roger Lowenstein Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Even before the Confederacys secession, the United States Treasury had run out of money. The government had no authority to raise taxes, no federal bank, no currency. But amid unprecedented troubles Lincoln saw opportunitythe chance to legislate in the centralizing spirit of the more perfect union that had first drawn him to politics. With Lincoln