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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... declared that the American Civil War had been “the only war in modern times as to which we can be sure, first, that no skill or patience of diplomacy would have avoided it; and second, that preservation of the American Union and ...
... declared that the American Civil War had been “the only war in modern times as to which we can be sure, first, that no skill or patience of diplomacy would have avoided it; and second, that preservation of the American Union and ...
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... declared a spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, “and the cause of secession could have been any number of things. This overemphasis on the slavery issue really rankles us.” Among the “any number of things” that caused ...
... declared a spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, “and the cause of secession could have been any number of things. This overemphasis on the slavery issue really rankles us.” Among the “any number of things” that caused ...
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... declared the Charleston Mercury in 1858, “the North and South . . . are not only two Peoples, but they are rival, hostile Peoples.” Anticipating Alexander Stephens's speech proclaiming slavery the “cornerstone” of the Confederacy ...
... declared the Charleston Mercury in 1858, “the North and South . . . are not only two Peoples, but they are rival, hostile Peoples.” Anticipating Alexander Stephens's speech proclaiming slavery the “cornerstone” of the Confederacy ...
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... declaration of war” by Yankee fanatics who intended to force the “sons and daughters” of the South to associate “with free negroes upon terms of political and social equality,” thus “consigning her [the South's] citizens to ...
... declaration of war” by Yankee fanatics who intended to force the “sons and daughters” of the South to associate “with free negroes upon terms of political and social equality,” thus “consigning her [the South's] citizens to ...
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... declared a Free Soil newspaper, because if slavery goes into a new territory “the free labor of the states will not. . . . If the free labor of the states goes there, the slave labor of the Southern states will not, and in a few years ...
... declared a Free Soil newspaper, because if slavery goes into a new territory “the free labor of the states will not. . . . If the free labor of the states goes there, the slave labor of the Southern states will not, and in a few years ...
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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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