This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil WarOxford University Press, 2007 M01 29 - 272 páginas The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom and the New York Times bestsellers Crossroads of Freedom and Tried by War, among many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. In this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the 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 insightful pieces on such intriguing figures as Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Jesse James, and William Tecumseh Sherman, and on such vital issues as Confederate military strategy, the failure of peace negotiations to end the war, and the realities and myths of the Confederacy. This Mighty Scourge includes several never-before-published essays--pieces on General Robert E. Lee's goals in the Gettysburg campaign, on Lincoln and Grant in the Vicksburg campaign, and on Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief. All of the essays have been updated and revised to give the volume greater thematic coherence and continuity, so that it can be read in sequence as an interpretive history of the war and its meaning for America and the world. Combining the finest scholarship with luminous prose, and packed with new information and fresh ideas, this book brings together the most recent thinking by the nation's leading authority on the Civil War. |
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... Southern independence? The old confederation known as the United States, said Stephens, had been founded on the false idea that all men are created equal. The Confederacy, in contrast, “is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its ...
... Southern independence? The old confederation known as the United States, said Stephens, had been founded on the false idea that all men are created equal. The Confederacy, in contrast, “is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its ...
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... Southern states seceded not to protect slavery but to vindicate state sovereignty. The South, Davis insisted, fought solely for “the inalienable right of a people to change their government ... to withdraw from a Union into which they ...
... Southern states seceded not to protect slavery but to vindicate state sovereignty. The South, Davis insisted, fought solely for “the inalienable right of a people to change their government ... to withdraw from a Union into which they ...
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... Southern-born historians who seized upon it as proof that slavery had little to do with the origins of the Confederacy. The Nashville Fugitives, an influential group of historians, novelists, and poets who gathered at Vanderbilt ...
... Southern-born historians who seized upon it as proof that slavery had little to do with the origins of the Confederacy. The Nashville Fugitives, an influential group of historians, novelists, and poets who gathered at Vanderbilt ...
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... Southern farmers and planters. Lincoln was elected in 1860 in the interest not of freedom over slavery but of railroads and factories over agriculture and the graces of a rural society. The result was the triumph of acquisitive, power ...
... Southern farmers and planters. Lincoln was elected in 1860 in the interest not of freedom over slavery but of railroads and factories over agriculture and the graces of a rural society. The result was the triumph of acquisitive, power ...
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... Southern states to secede to get free from the incessant pressure of these self-righteous Yankee zealots. Revisionism thus tended to portray Southern whites, even the fireeaters, as victims reacting to Northern attacks; it truly was a ...
... Southern states to secede to get free from the incessant pressure of these self-righteous Yankee zealots. Revisionism thus tended to portray Southern whites, even the fireeaters, as victims reacting to Northern attacks; it truly was a ...
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THE LOST CAUSE REVISITED | 41 |
ARCHITECTS OF VICTORY | 107 |
HOME FRONT AND BATTLE FRONT | 143 |
LINCOLN | 185 |
Notes | 223 |
Index | 253 |
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