Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War.
James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous
episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. From there it moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering by each side, the politics, and the personalities.
Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.
The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict. The South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union
founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war, slavery, and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's
bloodiest conflict.
This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.
最近在狂读美国历史,鉴于不肯做苦工遍览群书,但又不愿意随便Wikipedia对付事,所以决定以中庸之道处理:读相对较为详实、但是写给普通读者看的《牛津美国史》系列。 第一次听说这套历史是在《纽约时报》上,当时刚出了的《Empire of Liberty》和《From Colony to Superpower...
评分最近在狂读美国历史,鉴于不肯做苦工遍览群书,但又不愿意随便Wikipedia对付事,所以决定以中庸之道处理:读相对较为详实、但是写给普通读者看的《牛津美国史》系列。 第一次听说这套历史是在《纽约时报》上,当时刚出了的《Empire of Liberty》和《From Colony to Superpower...
评分最近在狂读美国历史,鉴于不肯做苦工遍览群书,但又不愿意随便Wikipedia对付事,所以决定以中庸之道处理:读相对较为详实、但是写给普通读者看的《牛津美国史》系列。 第一次听说这套历史是在《纽约时报》上,当时刚出了的《Empire of Liberty》和《From Colony to Superpower...
评分最近在狂读美国历史,鉴于不肯做苦工遍览群书,但又不愿意随便Wikipedia对付事,所以决定以中庸之道处理:读相对较为详实、但是写给普通读者看的《牛津美国史》系列。 第一次听说这套历史是在《纽约时报》上,当时刚出了的《Empire of Liberty》和《From Colony to Superpower...
评分最近在狂读美国历史,鉴于不肯做苦工遍览群书,但又不愿意随便Wikipedia对付事,所以决定以中庸之道处理:读相对较为详实、但是写给普通读者看的《牛津美国史》系列。 第一次听说这套历史是在《纽约时报》上,当时刚出了的《Empire of Liberty》和《From Colony to Superpower...
在看过的三本美国牛津史中,这本比较NB,and that's saying something
评分終於讀完了,這個大部頭! 比較有意思的兩個地方:共和黨拼了老命解放了黑人,結果黑人當了民主黨的總統。好像他們不把revolution當褒義詞,Davis反复強調,北方才是revolution,他們是counterrevolution,作為中國人真心難適應啊。
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评分在看过的三本美国牛津史中,这本比较NB,and that's saying something
评分終於讀完了,這個大部頭! 比較有意思的兩個地方:共和黨拼了老命解放了黑人,結果黑人當了民主黨的總統。好像他們不把revolution當褒義詞,Davis反复強調,北方才是revolution,他們是counterrevolution,作為中國人真心難適應啊。
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