April 2008 
Lincoln, Diplomacy, and War(Comments Off)
In the tumultuous six months between his election in November 1860 and the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, Abraham Lincoln rejected all diplomatic efforts to resolve the deepening crisis peacefully. In the political dispute with the newly constituted, but militarily weak, Confederate States of America, there would be no meaningful negotiations. No compromise would be offered or accepted. Instead, tensions between the two governments would be heightened, and the passions of the American public inflamed, by Lincoln’s provocative and deceptive rhetoric.
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THE WINTER OF THE MIDDLE CLASS—April 2008
PERSPECTIVE Little Aristocracies of Our Own by Thomas Fleming VIEWS The End of the American Middle Class by John Lukacs The lonely new age. Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be by James O. Tate Arriving at indistinction. STORY Your Hit Parade by Anthony Bukoski NEWS Anatomy of a Meltdown by David A. Hartman The [...]