Serious Civil War buffs will delight in this magisterial treatment. McPherson's accompanying captions sometimes overdo the characterological readings (in one portrait of a Confederate general we can supposedly""almost see Breckinridge's handlebar mustache twitching in anger""), but they provide interesting biographical background as well as piquant details and an indelible period feel. This new edition eliminates the footnotes and trims a fifth of the text to make way for color maps of major battles and campaigns and hundreds of photographs, cartoons and artist's depictions from the period. He has published numerous volumes on the Civil War, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, Crossroads of Freedom (which was a New York Times bestseller), Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, and For Cause. Encyclopedic in scope, it synthesizes political and military history into a sweeping narrative of America's national epic, one that paints the North's victory as the triumph of a""revolutionary future"" of""competitive, egalitarian, free-labor capitalism"" over the tradition-bound and hierarchical society of the South. McPherson is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. When somebody should go to the ebook stores, search. McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning opus is by now the standard one-volume treatment of the Civil War. among guides you could enjoy now is Battle Cry Of Freedom The Civil War Era.
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