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Carregando... The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Erade James M. McPherson
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Meticulous, expansive, insightful, and above all read able, this book well deserves the Pulitzer Prize it won and its less formal accolade as “the best single volume history of the American Civil War”. This book managed to make a subject I initially had very little interest in (due in large part to tedious high school history classes) feel vital, immediate, and keenly fascinating. Because of this book I think I’ll read more about this period in American history, maybe more volumes from this very talented and experienced author. ( ) As stated in other reviews, Battle Cry of Freedom may be the best single-volume treatment of the Civil War as a whole. The illustrated edition, published in 2003, 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. These extra materials make the book even more interesting, but they do make for a book that is large and very heavy. Don't try to read this one in bed - if you doze off, this book could do serious damage wherever it falls. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times Bestseller, Battle Cry of Freedom is universally recognized as the definitive account of the Civil War. It was hailed in The New York Times as "historical writing of the highest order." The Washington Post called it "the finestsingle volume on the war and its background." And The Los Angeles Times wrote that "of the 50,000 books written on the Civil War, it is the finest compression of that national paroxysm ever fitted between two covers."Now available in a splendid new edition is The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom. Boasting some seven hundred pictures, including a hundred and fifty color images and twenty-four full-color maps, here is the ultimate gift book for everyone interested in American history. McPherson has selectedall the illustrations, including rare contemporary photographs, period cartoons, etchings, woodcuts, and paintings, carefully choosing those that best illuminate the narrative. More important, he has written extensive captions (some 35,000 words in all, virtually a book in themselves), many of whichoffer genuinely new information and interpretations that significantly enhance the text. The text itself, streamlined by McPherson, remains a fast-paced narrative that brilliantly captures two decades of contentious American history, from the Mexican War to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. The readerwill find a truly masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities--as well as McPherson's thoughtful commentary on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, thecauses of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.A must-have purchase for the legions of Civil War buffs, The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom is both a spectacularly beautiful volume and the definitive account of the most important conflict in our nation's history. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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