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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
Document Type: | Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James M McPherson |
OCLC Number: | 86085821 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2007. |
Description: | 1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in. |
Contents: | Preface -- Slavery and the coming of war: And the war came; Escape and revolt in black and white -- Lost cause revisited: Confederacy, a house divided?; Was the best defense a good offense? Jefferson Davis and Confederate strategies; the Saratoga that wasn't, the impact of Antietam abroad; Conquer a peace? Lee's goals in the Gettysburg campaign; Last rebel, Jesse James; Long-legged Yankee lies, the lost cause textbook crusade -- Architects of victory: "We stand by each other always", Grant and Sherman; Hard hand of war; Unvexed to the sea, Lincoln, Grant, and the Vicksburg campaign -- Home front and battle front: Brahmins at war; "Spend much time in reading the daily papers"; No peace without victory, 1861 -- 1865; To remember that He had lived; "As Commander-in-Chief I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy" -- Notes. |
Responsibility: | James M. McPherson. |
Abstract:
Offers insights into questions and debates about America's greatest historical crisis - the Civil War. This work reflects from Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief to what might have happened if the South had won. It distills the wisdom of many years of teaching and writing about the meaning of the war and about slavery and its abolition.
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At first glance another reshuffle of some of Professor McPherson's impressively vast back-catalogue, is on closer inspection a much more timely, far more valuable, and revealing collection of one man's 'perspectives on the Civil War'. * S.-M Grant, History * This well-written collection by one of America's leading Civil War historians is very welcome not only to those interested in the conflict, but also for readers fascinated by nineteenth-century military history. * Jermey Black, History Today * Read more...
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