Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 258 p)
ISBN:
1280528079
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9781280528071
Content:
James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called ""history writingof the highest order."" Now, in Drawn With the Sword, McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and engaging essays on some of the most enduring questions of the Civil War, written in the masterful prose that has become his trademark. Filled with fresh interpretations, puncturing old myths and challenging ne
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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""Contents""; ""I: ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL WAR""; ""1. Antebellum Southern Exceptionalism: A New Look at an Old Question""; ""2. Tom on the Cross""; ""3. The War of Southern Aggression""; ""II: THE WAR AND AMERICAN SOCIETY""; ""4. The War that Never Goes Away""; ""5. From Limited to Total War, 1861�1865""; ""6. Race and Class in the Crucible of War""; ""7. The Glory Story""; ""III: WHY THE NORTH WON""; ""8. Why Did the Confederacy Lose?""; ""9. How the Confederacy Almost Won""; ""10. Lee Dissected""; ""11. Grant's Final Victory""; ""IV: THE ENDURING LINCOLN""; ""12. A New Birth of Freedom""
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""13. Who Freed the Slaves?""""14. ""The Whole Family of Man"": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope Abroad""; ""V: HISTORIANS AND THEIR AUDIENCES""; ""15. What's the Matter with History?""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1280528052
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195096798
Additional Edition:
Print version Drawn with the Sword : Reflections on the American Civil War
Language:
English
