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Safire's massive novel of Lincoln and emancipation
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FreedomA Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. By William
Safire. Doubleday. $24.95.
My mother used to say, "There is life north of Maryland, but
does anyone care?" William Safire does. Freedom, his magnum opus of
1,123 pages, examines the careers of the principal Northern actors of
the Civil War and how the Emancipation Proclamation came to be signed
by Abraham Lincoln, who at the beginning of the war did not intend to
free the slaves.
Safire has divided his immense novel into nine books, each named
for its chief figure: "John Cabell Breckinridge," "Anna Ella
Carroll," "Edwin ...
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