By Sea And By River part of your world

By Sea And By River part of your worldLess bloody and less known than the land campaigns of the Civil War, the naval battles and especially the naval blockade of the South were crucial factors in the outcome of the war. The spectacular battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack marked the debut of ironclads, a revolution in naval warfare. Ships supported McClellan's Peninsula Campaign and Grant's conquest of the Mississippi Valley. The raiding of the Confederate cruisers Sumter,

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Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington tell the haunting story of how the courts and Mississippi's death investigation system -- a relic of the Jim Crow era -- failed to deliver justice for its citizens

and Rick Perlstein's gutsy narrative history is full of portraits of figures from Nelson Rockefeller to Bill Moyers

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one enormous challenge threatened to derail America's audacious drive to win the world back from the Nazis: Japan