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Bestselling historian Scott Ellsworth's "Midnight on the Potomac"
Host Diana Korte speaks with author and historian Scott Ellsworth about his fifth title, MIDNIGHT ON THE POTOMAC, my favorite civil war book. Its pages are full of compelling details and new research that brings us a story many of us might have felt like we already knew. But turns out there are so many more facts he discovered in obscure places. It’s about the last year of the war, the Lincoln assassination, and the rebirth of America. And according to the author, “this is a book about how we almost lost our country.”Readers are swept across the Canadian border, into the backroom meetings of…
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