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Alice's Tulipsby Sandra DallasISBN 0312283784 (0-312-28378-4)
Softcover, Griffin
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American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth And The Lincoln Conspiraciesby Michael W. KauffmanISBN 0375759743 (0-375-75974-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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And the War Came; The North and the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861by Kenneth Milton StamppISBN 080710101X (0-8071-0101-X)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Arms and Equipment of the Civil Warby Jack CogginsISBN 0486433951 (0-486-43395-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Arms and Equiptment of the Civilby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517402351 (0-517-40235-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Army Life in a Black Regimentby Thomas Wentworth HigginsonISBN 0393301575 (0-393-30157-5)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Army Life in a Black Regiment'Book summary:This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
- Army Life in a Black Regiment: ISBN 0486424820 (0-486-42482-0)
Ashes of Glory: Richmond at Warby Ernest B. FurgursonISBN 0679746609 (0-679-74660-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennesse, 1862-1865by Thomas Lawerence ConnellyISBN 0807127388 (0-8071-2738-8)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign December 1862-July 1863by Shelby FooteISBN 0679601708 (0-679-60170-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil Warby Brent NosworthyISBN 0786715634 (0-7867-1563-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bloody Crucible Of Courage: Fighting Methods And Combat Experience Of The Civil War'Book summary:In this groundbreaking achievement in Civil War scholarship, acclaimed military historian Brent Nosworthy leads an all-out attack on the many myths and misunderstandings about how the North and South fought, and covers for the first time in any book the variety of Civil War combat methods in their entirety. Now everything from grand tactics to hand-to-hand combat during our nation's costliest war is given its proper due in the development of warfare. Nosworthy weaves together the story of newly emerging weapons, the resulting changes in military doctrine, and the combatants' experiences as these innovations were applied to the battlefield. Detailing methods of warfare from General Irvin McDowell's first tentative efforts at Bull Run to Lee's and Grant's final exertions at Petersburg and Appomattox, the author examines tactical variations due to regional differences and the distinctive circumstances of each campaign. Along with maps, diagrams, and illustrations throughout, The Bloody Crucible of Courage recognizes the primacy of the war's most compelling voices, and contains hundreds of firsthand accounts from the front lines.[via]More editions of The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War:
Civil War Collector's Encyclopediaby Francis A. LordISBN 0785804684 (0-7858-0468-4)
Hardcover, Blue & Grey Press
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Civil War Collector's Encyclopedia: Arms, Uniforms And Equipment Of The Union And Confederacyby Francis Alfred LordISBN 0486436608 (0-486-43660-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Complete Poetry and Selected Proseby Walt WhitmanISBN 0395051320 (0-395-05132-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Decisive Battles of the Civil Warby Joseph B. MitchellISBN 0449300315 (0-449-30031-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Devil Knows How to Ride : The True Story of William Clark Quantrill and His Confederate Raidersby Edward E. LeslieISBN 0679424555 (0-679-42455-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Fight for Chattanooga: Chickamauga to Missionary Ridgeby Jerry KornISBN 0809448165 (0-8094-4816-5)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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First with the Most: Nathan Bedford Forestby Robert S. HenryISBN 079245605X (0-7924-5605-X)
Hardcover, B D D Promotional Book Company, Incorporated
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For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684803356 (0-684-80335-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'Book summary:For Whom the Bell Tolls begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, a demolitions expert attached to the International Brigades, lies "flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees." The sylvan setting, however, is at sharp odds with the reason Jordan is there: he has come to blow up a bridge on behalf of the antifascist guerrilla forces. He hopes he'll be able to rely on their local leader, Pablo, to help carry out the mission, but upon meeting him, Jordan has his doubts: "I don't like that sadness, he thought. That sadness is bad. That's the sadness they get before they quit or before they betray. That is the sadness that comes before the sell-out." For Pablo, it seems, has had enough of the war. He has amassed for himself a small herd of horses and wants only to stay quietly in the hills and attract as little attention as possible. Jordan's arrival--and his mission--have seriously alarmed him.
"I am tired of being hunted. Here we are all right. Now if you blow a bridge here, we will be hunted. If they know we are here and hunt for us with planes, they will find us. If they send Moors to hunt us out, they will find us and we must go. I am tired of all this. You hear?" He turned to Robert Jordan. "What right have you, a foreigner, to come to me and tell me what I must do?"
In one short chapter Hemingway lays out the blueprint for what is to come: Jordan's sense of duty versus Pablo's dangerous self-interest and weariness with the war. Complicating matters even more are two members of the guerrilla leader's small band: his "woman" Pilar, and Maria, a young woman whom Pablo rescued from a Republican prison train. Unlike her man, Pilar is still fiercely devoted to the cause and as Pablo's loyalty wanes, she becomes the moral center of the group. Soon Jordan finds himself caught between the two, even as his own resolve is tested by his growing feelings for Maria.For Whom the Bell Tolls combines two of the author's recurring obsessions: war and personal honor. The pivotal battle scene involving El Sordo's last stand is a showcase for Hemingway's narrative powers, but the quieter, ongoing conflict within Robert Jordan as he struggles to fulfill his mission perhaps at the cost of his own life is a testament to his creator's psychological acuity. By turns brutal and compassionate, it is arguably Hemingway's most mature work and one of the best war novels of the 20th century. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- For Whom the Bell Tolls: ISBN 0684830485 (0-684-83048-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - For Whom the Bell Tolls: ISBN 0684717980 (0-684-71798-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - For Whom the Bell Tolls: ISBN 0684102390 (0-684-10239-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - For Whom the Bell Tolls: ISBN 0684153165 (0-684-15316-5)
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Freedomby William SafireISBN 0380705842 (0-380-70584-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Gileadby Marilynne RobinsonISBN 031242440X (0-312-42440-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilead'Book summary:In 1981, Marilynne Robinson wrote Housekeeping, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and became a modern classic. Since then, she has written two pieces of nonfiction: Mother Country and The Death of Adam. With Gilead, we have, at last, another work of fiction. As with The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzards's return, 22 years after The Transit of Venus, it was worth the long wait. Books such as these take time, and thought, and a certain kind of genius. There are no invidious comparisons to be made. Robinson's books are unalike in every way but one: the same incisive thought and careful prose illuminate both.
The narrator, John Ames, is 76, a preacher who has lived almost all of his life in Gilead, Iowa. He is writing a letter to his almost seven-year-old son, the blessing of his second marriage. It is a summing-up, an apologia, a consideration of his life. Robinson takes the story away from being simply the reminiscences of one man and moves it into the realm of a meditation on fathers and children, particularly sons, on faith, and on the imperfectability of man.
The reason for the letter is Ames's failing health. He wants to leave an account of himself for this son who will never really know him. His greatest regret is that he hasn't much to leave them, in worldly terms. "Your mother told you I'm writing your begats, and you seemed very pleased with the idea. Well, then. What should I record for you?" In the course of the narrative, John Ames records himself, inside and out, in a meditative style. Robinson's prose asks the reader to slow down to the pace of an old man in Gilead, Iowa, in 1956. Ames writes of his father and grandfather, estranged over his grandfather's departure for Kansas to march for abolition and his father's lifelong pacifism. The tension between them, their love for each other and their inability to bridge the chasm of their beliefs is a constant source of rumination for John Ames. Fathers and sons.
The other constant in the book is Ames's friendship since childhood with "old Boughton," a Presbyterian minister. Boughton, father of many children, favors his son, named John Ames Boughton, above all others. Ames must constantly monitor his tendency to be envious of Boughton's bounteous family; his first wife died in childbirth and the baby died almost immediately after her. Jack Boughton is a ne'er-do-well, Ames knows it and strives to love him as he knows he should. Jack arrives in Gilead after a long absence, full of charm and mischief, causing Ames to wonder what influence he might have on Ames's young wife and son when Ames dies.
These are the things that Ames tells his son about: his ancestors, the nature of love and friendship, the part that faith and prayer play in every life and an awareness of one's own culpability. There is also reconciliation without resignation, self-awareness without deprecation, abundant good humor, philosophical queries--Jack asks, "'Do you ever wonder why American Christianity seems to wait for the real thinking to be done elsewhere?'"--and an ongoing sense of childlike wonder at the beauty and variety of God's world.
In Marilynne Robinson's hands, there is a balm in Gilead, as the old spiritual tells us. --Valerie Ryan [via]
Girl In Blueby Ann RinaldiISBN 0439676460 (0-439-67646-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Glorieta Passby P. G. NagleISBN 0812540492 (0-8125-4049-2)
Softcover, Forge
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If the South Had Won the Civil Warby MacKinlay KantorISBN 0312869495 (0-312-86949-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If the South Had Won the Civil War'Book summary:The Past is a strange place indeed . . . everything could have been so different so easily.[via]
Just a touch here and a tweak there . . . .
MacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer Price-winning author and master storyteller, shows us how the South could have won the Civil War: how two small shifts in history (as we know it) in the summer of 1863 could have turned the tide for the Confederacy. What would have happened to the Union, to Abraham Lincoln, to the people of the North and South, to the world?
If the South Had Won the Civil War originally appeared in Look magazine nearly half a century ago. It immediately inspired a deluge of letters and telegrams from astonished readers, and became an American Classic overnight. Published in book form soon after, Kantor's masterpiece has been unavailable for a decade. Now, this much requested classic is once again available for a new generation of readers, and features a stunning cover by acclaimed Civil War artist Don Troiani, a new introduction by award-winning alternate history author Harry Turtledove, and fifteen superb illustrations by the incomparable Dan Nance.
It all begins on that fateful afternoon of Tuesday, May 12, 1863, when a deplorable equestrian accident claims the life of General Ulysses S. Grant . . . .More editions of If the South Had Won the Civil War:
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The Illustrated Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Howard ChapnickISBN 0448020742 (0-448-02074-2)
Hardcover, Madison Square Press
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Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hourby William C. DavisISBN 0807120790 (0-8071-2079-0)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Jefferson Davis, Americanby Cooper, William J., Jr.ISBN 0394569164 (0-394-56916-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Jefferson Davis, Americanby William J. CooperISBN 0375725423 (0-375-72542-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Peter Davison, Billy Collins, Gay Wilson AllenISBN 0451529731 (0-451-52973-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gift . . . the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." Over the course of Whitman's life, the book reappeared in many versions, expanded and transformed as the author's experiences and the nation's history changed and grew. Whitman's ambition was to creates something uniquely American. In that he succeeded. His poems have been woven into the very fabric of the American character. From his solemn masterpieces "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" to the joyous freedom of "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "Song of the Open Road," Whitman's work lives on, an inspiration to the poets of later generations. [via]
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Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0460005731 (0-460-00573-1)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0679600760 (0-679-60076-0)
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Hardcover, Modern Library - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 076070550X (0-7607-0550-X)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0808509675 (0-8085-0967-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0393093883 (0-393-09388-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0451524853 (0-451-52485-3)
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0679725148 (0-679-72514-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0385487274 (0-385-48727-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Leaves of Grass: ISBN 0814710247 (0-8147-1024-7)
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Leaves of Grass and Other Writingsby Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Michael Moon, Harold W. BlodgettISBN 0393974960 (0-393-97496-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass and Other Writings'Book summary:This new edition of "Leaves of Grass" inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". Throughout the text, the explanatory annotations have been revised and expanded. "Whitman on His Art" presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles. "Criticism" collects 18 essays, 11 of which are new to this edition, including those by: Fanny Fern, Henry David Thoreau, Anne Gilchrist, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, David S. Reynolds, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Michael Moon, John Irwin, Allen Grossman and Betsy Erikkila. A chronology and selected bibliography and an index of titles are included. [via]
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Leaves of Grass:Authoritative Texts, Prefaces, Whitman on His Art, Criticism: Authoritative Texts, Prefaces, Whitman on His Art, Criticismby Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold William BlodgettISBN 0393043541 (0-393-04354-1)
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Leaves of Grass; Selected Poetry and Prose.by Walt WhitmanISBN 0385042523 (0-385-04252-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Leeby Charles Brace FloodISBN 0395929741 (0-395-92974-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lee'Book summary:After his surrender at Appomattox, Robert E. Lee lived only another five years - the forgotten chapter of an extraordinary life. These were his finest hours, when he did more than any other American to heal the wounds between North and South. Flood draws on new research to create an intensely human and a "wonderful, tragic, and powerful . . . story for which we have been waiting over a century" (Theodore H. White).[via] -
Lee the Soldierby Gary W. GallagherISBN 0803221533 (0-8032-2153-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lee the Soldier'Book summary:This collection of essays scratches a bit of the luster off General Robert E. Lee by examining his ability as a commander. The 21 essays were authored by current researchers on the Civil War and by 19th century military analysts, including a Union veteran. There are five new articles in the book. The unifying theme of the articles is the questioning of Lee's role in the defeat of the Confederacy. Greatly admired by his troops, he plunged the Army of Northern Virginia into some of the most brutal fighting in military history. Lee the Soldier carefully weighs the notion that Lee's bold moves may have hastened the South's defeat. [via]
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Commandby Stephen W. Sears, Douglas Southall Freeman, James M. McPhersonISBN 0684859793 (0-684-85979-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Lee--the Last Yearsby Charles Bracelen FloodISBN 0395312922 (0-395-31292-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Lincoln's Greatest Speechby White, Ronald C., Jr.ISBN 0743212983 (0-7432-1298-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lincoln's Greatest Speech : The Second Inauguration'Book summary:In the tradition of Garry Wills's modern classic Lincoln at Gettysburg, Ronald C. White Jr. offers a close reading of the speech Abraham Lincoln gave in 1865 at his second inauguration and declares it the man's finest and most important effort. It contains one of Lincoln's best-known lines ("With malice toward none; with charity for all"), which White admires as "a timeless promise of reconciliation." At the same time, White reminds readers that rather than yanking such brilliant rhetorical nuggets from their context, "We need to understand Lincoln's strategy for the complete speech." He provides this in some detail, describing the political environment in which Lincoln found himself, having recently won a presidential election that he nearly lost and also seeing the Confederacy begin to collapse for good. It was not a long speech, containing only 701 words of mostly one syllable each and requiring merely six or seven minutes to deliver, compared to about 35 minutes for the inaugural address he had given four years earlier. White calls these words Lincoln's "last will and testament to America." John Wilkes Booth, who attended the inaugural ceremony, would murder him the next month. Lincoln buffs in particular will appreciate this book, as will fans of Jay Winik's April 1865. --John Miller [via]
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Look Awayby Harold CoyleISBN 067152819X (0-671-52819-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Look Away'Book summary:From the author whom Tom Clancy calls "the best natural storyteller I know", comes the first book in a major new Civil War saga. James and Kevin Bannon, sons of a prosperous New Jersey businessman, see their fierce loyalty to each other abruptly shattered by their rivalry over a woman . . . and her shocking, violent death. Illustrations. Map. [via]
Mosby's Rangersby Jeffry D. WertISBN 0671747452 (0-671-74745-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil Warby Drew Gilpin FaustISBN 0807855731 (0-8078-5573-1)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
Winner of the Avery Craven Prize
In the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families were raised to consider themselves not so much as "women" but as "ladies," models of dependent femininity. But that ideal was to prove impossible to maintain during the social upheaval of the Civil War, when they found themselves suddenly assuming unaccustomed roles as workers, protectors, and providers. Through the use of hundreds of moving and eloquent letters, memoirs, and diary excerpts, Drew Gilpin Faust, one of the foremost historians of the American South, illuminates the lives of a wide array of Confederate women: from Lizzie Neblett, a housewife facing a life of physical labor for the first time, to Sallie Tompkins, a Virginia aristocrat turned military nurse, to Belle Boyd, a ruthless teenaged spy. An intensely personal work of scholarship, Mothers of Invention gives voice to the hitherto silent half of the Confederacy's ruling class and explains how its ethos continues to influence the lives of Southern women even today.
"A dramatically revealing study...[Faust looks] directly at the past, with a daughter's hard, steady gaze, and with a daughter's generous heart."--New York Times Book Review [via]More editions of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War:
- Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War: ISBN 0807822558 (0-8078-2255-8)
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- Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War: ISBN 0807822558 (0-8078-2255-8)
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The Night Inspectorby Frederick BuschISBN 0449006158 (0-449-00615-8)
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And what exactly has the narrator lost? As we learn in a sequence of flashbacks, Bartholomew served as a Union sniper, picking off stray Confederate soldiers in an extended bout of psychological warfare. Eventually, though, he received a taste of his own medicine, when a enemy bullet destroyed most of his face. Outfitted with an eerie papier-mâché mask, Bartholomew tends to shock postwar observers into silence:
I imagine I understand their reaction: the bright white mask, its profound deadness, the living eyes beneath--within--the holes, the sketched brows and gashed mouth, airholes embellished, a painting of a nose.... Nevertheless. I won this on your behalf, I am tempted to cry, or pretend to. The specie of the nation, the coin of the realm, our dyspeptic economy, the glister and gauge of American gold: I was hired to wear it!
Bartholomew has, it should be obvious, a formidable mastery of rhetoric. It's appropriate, then, that he should hook up with that supreme exponent of the American baroque, Herman Melville--who at this point is a burnt-out customs inspector (and candidate for some Victorian 12-step plan). Together these outcasts embark upon a plan to rescue a group of black children from their Florida servitude. This caper--along with Bartholomew's attachment to a gold-hearted, elaborately tattooed prostitute--allows the novel to veer in the direction of the penny dreadful. Yet Busch's mastery of period detail, and of the very shape of century-old syntax, remains extraordinary on every page. And true to its title, The Night Inspector is a superb investigation of darkness--in both the physical and psychological sense. "I was reckless," the narrator insists, "and born with great vision though not, alas, of the interior, spiritual sort." By the end of the novel, most readers will decide that he's undersold himself. --Bob Brandeis [via] 
Not War but Murder: Cold Harbor 1864by Ernest B. FurgursonISBN 0679781390 (0-679-78139-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Pictorial History of the Civil War Yearsby Paul M. Angle, William C. DavisISBN 0385185510 (0-385-18551-0)
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The Red Badge of Courage and Four Storiesby Stephen Crane, R. W. StallmanISBN 0451526473 (0-451-52647-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capitalby Nelson LankfordISBN 0670031178 (0-670-03117-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Stars & Stripes Foreverby Harry HarrisonISBN 0345409345 (0-345-40934-5)
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The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil Warby Thomas P. LowryISBN 0811715159 (0-8117-1515-9)
Hardcover, Stackpole Books
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The Struggle for Tennessee: Tupelo to Stones Riverby Time-Life Books, James StreetISBN 0809447606 (0-8094-4760-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Unvanquishedby William FaulknerISBN 0679736522 (0-679-73652-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippiby Michael B. BallardISBN 0807828939 (0-8078-2893-9)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 0486456765 (0-486-45676-5)
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With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil Warby G. A. Henty, Gordon BrowneISBN 0486434567 (0-486-43456-7)
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With My Face to the Enemyby David Herbert Donald, Robert CowleyISBN 0399147373 (0-399-14737-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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With My Face to the Enemy : Perspectives on the Civil Warby Robert CowleyISBN 0425184587 (0-425-18458-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Year of Jubiloby Howard BahrISBN 0312280696 (0-312-28069-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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