| The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville Contributor(s): Foote, Shelby (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394746236 ISBN-13: 9780394746234 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1986 Annotation: FORT SUMTER TO PERRYVILLE "Anyone who wants to relive the Civil War, as thousands of Americans apparently do, will go through this volume with pleasure.... Years from now, Foote's monumental narrative most likely will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."--"New York Herald Tribune Book Review "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters."--Van Allen Bradley, "Chicago Daily News |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | Military - United States |
| Dewey: 973.7 |
| LCCN: 86040135 |
| Series: Vintage Civil War Library |
| Physical Information: 1.84" H x 6.37" W x 9.22" (2.51 lbs) 856 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis's farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America's great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Foote's epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel. Includes maps throughout. Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives...a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters.--Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News A stunning book full of color, life, character and a new atmosphere of the Civil War, and at the same time a narrative of unflagging power. Eloquent proof that an historian should be a writer above all else. --Burke Davis To read this great narrative is to love the nation--to love it through the living knowledge of its mortal division. Whitman, who ultimately knew and loved the bravery and frailty of the soldiers, observed that the real Civil War would never be written and perhaps should not be. For me, Shelby Foote has written it.... This work was done to last forever. --James M. Cox, Southern Review |