Battle Cry of Freedom
James M. McPherson
  • Published: 25 January 2001
  • ISBN: 9780140125184
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 944
  • RRP: $55.00
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Battle Cry of Freedom

The Civil War Era

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McPherson recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. From there it moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering by each side, the politics, and the personalities.
  • Published: 25 January 2001
  • ISBN: 9780140125184
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 944
  • RRP: $55.00
Categories:

About the author

James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of History at Princeton University. America’s leading historian of the Civil War, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, which was a New York Times bestseller, and he won the Lincoln Prize for For Cause and Comrades.

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Praise for Battle Cry of Freedom

The definitive study, meticulous in its scholarship and compulsive in its readability

Financial Times

McPherson is wonderfully lucid... Above all, everything is in a living relationship with everything else ... Omitting nothing important, whether military, political or economic, he yet manages to make everything he touches drive the narrative forward ... historical writing of the highest order

The New York Times

A distinguished contribution to American history ... He has succeeded brilliantly. He has written what will surely become the standard one-volume history of the great conflict which forged America as a united nation

Independent

Absolutely brilliant ... McPherson has fresh approaches to the war's background, the four years of struggle and the aftermath

Washington Post Book World

McPherson wears with equal ease the hats of biographer, economist, sociologist and military historian .. Probably the best single-volume history of America's Civil War yet written

Economist
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