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5.0 out of 5 stars
Eloquently Written Stuff,
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This review is from: America Goes to War (Hardcover)
The title: That's the only way I can put it. Not a novice to the Civil War, I picked this up simply because of who wrote it. Twenty years after his death, Mr. Catton is continually reasserting himself as THE author to read on the Civil War. This book contains general overtures, as written for lectures delivered at Wesleyan University in 1958, that he'd presented when he was alive. Like the title implies, passages are simply....beautifully written. The author takes you through a variety of topics, again generally: politics, the citizen solder, Lincoln, the terrible price of victory.... The layout of the literature is in lecture format, but does absolutely nothing to take away from what you're reading about. Spend the few dollars, and put this into your collection. It belongs on everybody's Civil War shelf. To take a line from page 68: We are a people to whom the past is forever speaking. |
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America Goes to War by Bruce Catton (Hardcover - July 1997)
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