Hadley Luzerne Public Library

This month the book club will be discussing Three Cups of Tea.  When they come in for the meeting, they will be picking up April 1865 The Month that Saved America by Jay Winik.  This is a civil war saga.  April 1865 was a month that could have unraveled the nation.  Instead, it saved it.  Here Jay Winik offers a brilliant new look at the Civil War’s final days that will forever change the way we see the war’s end and the nation’s new beginning.  Uniquely set within the larger sweep of history, filled with rich profiles of outsize figures, fresh iconoclastic scholarship, and a gripping narrative, this is a masterful account of the thirty most pivotal days in the life of the United States.�
This one month witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond; a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare; Lee’s harrowing retreat; and then the Appomattox.  It saw Lincoln’s assassination just five days later, and a near successful plot to decapitate the Union government, followed by the chaos and coup fears in the North, collapsed negotiations and continued bloodshed in the South, and finally, the start of national reconciliation.  In the end, April 1865 emerges as not just the tale of the war’s denouement, but the story of the making of our nation.