Drawn with the sword : reflections on the American Civil War / James M. McPherson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McPherson, James M., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 258 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." Now, in Drawn With the Sword, McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and engaging essays on some of the most enduring questions of the Civil War, written in the masterful prose that has become his trademark.

Contents:

1. Antebellum Southern Exceptionalism: A New Look at an Old Question

2. Tom on the Cross

3. The War of Southern Aggression

4. The War that Never Goes Away

5. From Limited to Total War, 1861-1865

6. Race and Class in the Crucible of War

7. The Glory Story

8. Why Did the Confederacy Lose?

9. How the Confederacy Almost Won

10. Lee Dissected

11. Grant's Final Victory

12. A New Birth of Freedom

13. Who Freed the Slaves?

14. "The Whole Family of Man": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope Abroad

15. What's the Matter with History?

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771265-7

1-4294-0663-1

1-280-52807-9

0-19-972783-X

OCLC:

870243261