Scout Dialogue: Writers Collection
James McPherson
Special | 28m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
A conversation with Civil War Historian James McPherson
James McPherson is one of America’s greatest Civil War historians. In his latest book, “Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief,” he gives new insight into Abraham Lincoln’s remarkable skill as a military leader. This week on Dialogue, host Joan Cartan-Hansen talks with McPherson about Lincoln and why we are still fighting over some of the same issues we thrashed out in the Civil War.
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Scout Dialogue: Writers Collection is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV
Major funding provided by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation
Scout Dialogue: Writers Collection
James McPherson
Special | 28m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
James McPherson is one of America’s greatest Civil War historians. In his latest book, “Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief,” he gives new insight into Abraham Lincoln’s remarkable skill as a military leader. This week on Dialogue, host Joan Cartan-Hansen talks with McPherson about Lincoln and why we are still fighting over some of the same issues we thrashed out in the Civil War.
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