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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... secession and of the Civil War. The institution of slavery, he said, created a powerful interest in the states where it existed. “To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the ...
... secession and of the Civil War. The institution of slavery, he said, created a powerful interest in the states where it existed. “To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the ...
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... secession,” 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 ...
... secession,” 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 ...
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... secession convention justified its action on the ground that, when Lincoln became president, “the Slaveholding ... secession in the winter of 1860–61. That is the principal finding of one of the most important books on the secession ...
... secession convention justified its action on the ground that, when Lincoln became president, “the Slaveholding ... secession in the winter of 1860–61. That is the principal finding of one of the most important books on the secession ...
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... secession rhetoric. Apostles of Disunion is a study of the men appointed by seceding states as commissioners to visit other slave states to persuade them also to leave the Union and join together to form the Confederacy. “I found this ...
... secession rhetoric. Apostles of Disunion is a study of the men appointed by seceding states as commissioners to visit other slave states to persuade them also to leave the Union and join together to form the Confederacy. “I found this ...
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... secession. “No other 'overt act' can so imperatively demand resistance on our part,” declared a North Carolina congressman, “as the simple election of their candidate.”29 The resistance he had in mind—secession—did not necessarily mean ...
... secession. “No other 'overt act' can so imperatively demand resistance on our part,” declared a North Carolina congressman, “as the simple election of their candidate.”29 The resistance he had in mind—secession—did not necessarily mean ...
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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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