Purchase

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Powell's Books

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Ripped Bodice

Add to Wish List

Also by James M. McPherson:

The War That Forged a Nation, March 2015
Hardcover
Embattled Rebel, October 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Abraham Lincoln, December 2008
Hardcover
Tried by War, October 2008
Hardcover
This Mighty Scourge, January 2007
Hardcover
Battle Cry of Freedom, December 2003
Trade Size (reprint)

This Mighty Scourge
James M. McPherson

Perspectives on the Civil War

Oxford University Press
January 2007
On Sale: January 4, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0195313666
EAN: 9780195313666
Hardcover
Add to Wish List

Historical | Non-Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom and the New York Times bestseller Crossroads of Freedom, among many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. Now, in this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the most enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation's history.

McPherson sheds light on topics large and small, from the average soldier's avid love of newspapers to the postwar creation of the mystique of a Lost Cause in the South.

Readers will find insightful pieces on such intriguing figures as Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Jesse James, and William Tecumseh Sherman, and on such vital issues such as Confederate military strategy, the failure of peace negotiations to end the war, and the realities and myths of the Confederacy. This Mighty Scourge includes several never-before-published essays--pieces on General Robert E. Lee's goals in the Gettysburg campaign, on Lincoln and Grant in the Vicksburg campaign, and on Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief. In that capacity, Lincoln invented the concept of presidential war powers that are again at the center of controversy today. All of the essays have been updated and revised to give the volume greater thematic coherence and continuity, so that it can be read in sequence as an interpretive history of the war and its meaning for America and the world.

Combining the finest scholarship with luminous prose, and packed with new information and fresh ideas, this book brings together the most recent thinking by the nation's leading authority on the Civil War. It will be must reading foreveryone interested in the war and American history.

Comments

No comments posted.

Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!