UID:
(DE-602)gbv_722855729
Format:
Online-Ressource (273 p.)
ISBN:
9780195392425
Content:
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom and the New York Times bestseller Crossroads of Freedom, among many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. Now, in this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the most enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation's history. McPherson sheds light on topics large and small, from the average soldier's avid love of newspapers to the postwar creation of the mystique of a Lost Cause in the South. Readers will find
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I: SLAVERY AND THE COMING OF WAR; II: THE LOST CAUSE REVISITED; III: ARCHITECTS OF VICTORY; IV: HOME FRONT AND BATTLE FRONT; V: LINCOLN; Notes; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198042761
Additional Edition:
Print version This Mighty Scourge : Perspectives on the Civil War
Language:
English
Keywords:
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