Battle Cry of Freedom (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James M. McPherson
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Military and political history
- Time of Work: 1848-1865
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Civil War, War, Government, Confederate States of America
- Locales: United States
With fifty thousand books already published on the Civil War, the task of the writer who attempts a synthesis of the period would seem to be overwhelming, but James M. McPherson has managed it with a scholar's skill and a good writer's gift for telling an absorbing story. Winner of the Putlitzer Prize for history, this volume in The Oxford History of the United States begins with a sketch of the country at midcentury, 25 percent larger as a result of the southwestern territory acquired at the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1848 and confronting long-simmering tensions over the westward...
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