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Magical Tome
- First published
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Pages
- 229 pages
- ISBN
- 9780813931272
The enemy within
The outer archives are busy
About this book
"Stoked by a series of major scandals, popular fears of corruption in the Civil War North provide a unique window into Northern culture in the Civil War era. In The enemy within, Michael Thomas Smith relates these scandals -- including those involving John C. Fr?mont's administration in Missouri, Benjamin Butler's in Louisiana, bounty jumping and recruitment fraud, controversial wartime innovations in the Treasury Department, government contracting, and the cotton trade -- to deeper anxieties"--Jacket.
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Horror / Dark Elements
Romance
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