Culture | Bonds and bullets
How Abraham Lincoln financed the civil war
The conflict shaped the economy as well as vice versa
Ways and Means. By Roger Lowenstein. Penguin Press; 448 pages; $30
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Battle of the bonds”
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