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This book is a valuable addition to a number of academic areas including political science, international law, the laws of war, history, and sociology. Further, these excellent researchers are also wonderful storytellers, and this book will provide readers with both an informative re-examination of a watershed (and still ongoing) event in American history and an enjoyable read. --Howard Ball, author of Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide: The Twentieth-Century Experience and Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights This timely and important book contributes to understanding the Civil War/Reconstruction context of the uses and limits of presidential war powers when faced with a domestic insurrection. It also makes suggestive and weighty insights on how those presidential and judicial decisions of the Civil War/Reconstruction Era resonate in the current public policy debates on the problem of security in an age of stateless wars and acts of terror. This work succeeds in all of its goals and, as is required in a volume of collected essays, the whole is greater than the individual parts--an impressive book. --Thomas C. Mackey, professor of history, University of Louisville

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Stewart L. Winger is associate professor of history at Illinois State University. Jonathan W. White is associate professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University.

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