Free Download America Goes to War: The Civil War and Its Meaning in American Culture by Bruce Catton
English | February 15, 1992 | ISBN: 0819560162 | True EPUB | 128 pages | 1.9 MB
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian "ranges informally but authoritatively" across Civil War-related topics in a thought-provoking essay collection (The New York Times).
Based on a lecture series delivered at Wesleyan University, these essays come from Bruce Catton, a New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author acclaimed as "one of America’s foremost Civil War authorities" (Kirkus Reviews). In them, he delves more deeply into the subject of the war and its meaning for America-addressing such issues as the psychology of the citizen soldier; the presidential career of Ulysses S. Grant; and what happens to civil liberties in wartime. He explores how the war compelled the nation to confront questions about race and democracy, and places the conflict in a wider context, identifying it as the world’s first truly modern war.
"Nothing in our time makes the Civil War as alive as the writings of Bruce Catton." -The Baltimore Sun