| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor. By Dennis K. Boman. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xiv, 263 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3164-0.)

On the surface Hamilton Gamble is not a prominent figure in general American history or even, more specifically, in the events of 1861–1865. One suspects that the title of this book is an attempt to pull Mr. Gamble's obscurity into prominence by hitching it to the universally recognized name of Mr. Lincoln. Nevertheless, the shadows cast by Abraham Lincoln scholarship over so much of American history meets its match in Dennis K. Boman's biography of Gamble. The reader comes away with a real appreciation of the complex political dynamics associated with public service in that critical era. Some of the dynamics are more effectively addressed than others, but bringing them to the forefront in the context of a relatively concise biography is itself an achievement.

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