"WE SHALL," said Abraham Lincoln, "nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth." This was in December, 1862 when he was pleading for compensated emancipation of the slaves, an ideal that was close to his heart. But he might have been speaking of each and every one of the momentous events of the second year of the Civil War.At the time of first publication The Saturday Review hailed Nevins "splendid book" as "an undeniable masterwork."All four volumes of the War for the Union are currently available from Konecky & Konecky.
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This splendid book brings Dr. Nevins's panorama the next step beyond the "Improvised War"...to the eve of... Gettysburg... --Saturday Review
About the Author
Allan Nevins was one of our most honored historians. He won the Pulitzer Prize and The National Book Award (for the last two volumes of the War for the Union). The New York Times described Nevins's work as "a majestic peak in the mountains of American history."
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Real history with all the warts,
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This review is from: The War for the Union Volume II....War Becomes Revolution 1862-1863 (Hardcover)
This is a middle volume in an eight-volume set of books which exhaustively covers the many origins and history of the Civil War from 1847 onward. For any student of history, it is invaluable in its coverage of the roots of the war and its conduct. This volume deals with the haphazard beginnings of the war in North and South when both sides thought that the war would be brief, and -- so to speak -- fun. Obviously that was a triumph of romanticism and fanaticism over logic; the truth was bloody and protracted. Despite the author's tendency toward lengthy sidebars, this is valuable history, fairly well written. Nevins could have used an editor, but so could most acedemics. This is worth the price, but consider reading the earlier volumes first.
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Nevins is what a historian should be,
By Ryan Lanham (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The War for the Union Volume II....War Becomes Revolution 1862-1863 (Hardcover)
This masterwork, one of the finest volumes ever written on the Civil War, is beautiful, timeless and provocative. Nevins writes effortlessly while using words such as "evinces" and "deputed" in a style that is lofty but not haughty. More than vocabulary or even style, however, is the weight this book carries in shear analytic power of historic events. Here is a historian who knows the real story and who has read the primary text. Yet this is not academic drivel, excessively given to the meanders of a minor player. This is what history should be. This is the language, the insite, the detail that convince a reader of a rare gift. Many set out to be what Nevins was, few come close.
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