The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Sheehan-Dean, Aaron (editor); Simpson, Brooks D. (editor); Sears, Stephen W. (editor)

Edité par The Library of America, New York, 2014

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As new condition dark blue cloth boards with gold spine lettering within a gold and black rectangular block border, contained within a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Preliminary Pages re: Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chronology; Biographical Notes; Note on the Texts; Notes; Index; and List of Other Library of America Publications. Illustrated with color illustrated front and rear endpaper maps. Also includes a bound-into-the-volume black satin ribbon page marker. The rear jacket has two thin 3 inch light scratches which are noticeable under certain reflected light (see photographs). All pages are in very fine unmarked condition and the spine is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). "Extraordinary, imaginatively compiled, and beautifully edited. If there is a richer evocation of those terrible times, I have not seen it." - Geoffrey C. Ward, author. "A profound portrait of a nation in crisis. It will forever deepen the way you see this central chapter in our history .[I]t does not seem the least bit rash to call this collage of testimony a masterpiece." - Malcolm Jones, Newsweek. "[An] engaging historical narrative . Goes a long way toward answering questions that posterity has debated about the Civil War during the past 150 years." - Daniel Walker Howe, Bookforum. "Has there ever been another historical crisis of the magnitude of 1861-65 in which so many people were so articulate?" - Edmund Wilson. "After 150 years the Civil War still holds a central place in American history and self-understanding. It is our greatest national drama, at once heroic, tragic, and epic - our Iliad, but also our Bible, a story of sin and judgment, suffering and despair, death and resurrection in a "new birth of freedom." The Civil War: The Final Year brings together letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages, and poems to provide an incomparable literary portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory and slavery and secession to their ultimate destruction. The final volume of this highly acclaimed four-volume series begins with the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid on Richmond in March 1864 and ends with the proclamation of emancipatin in Texas in June 1865. It collects 160 pieces by more than one hundred participants and observers, among them Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Walt Whitman, Henry Adams, and Herman Melville, as well as Union officeres Charles Harvey Brewster, James A. Connolly, and Stephen Minot Weld; Confederate diarists Catherine Edmonston, Kate Stone, and Judith W. McGuire; freed slaves Spottswood Rice, Garrison Frazier, and Frances Johnson; and Confederate soldiers J.F.J. Caldwell, Samuel T. Foster, and William Pegram. The selections include vivid and haunting firsthand account of battles and campaigns - the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Atlanta, the Crater, Franklin, and Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas - as well as of the Fort Pillow massacre; the struggle to survive inside Andersonville prison; the burning of Columbia and Richmond; the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment; the surrender at Appomattox; and Lincoln's assassination. The Civil War: The Final Year includes an introduction, headnotes, a chronology of events, biographical and explanatory endnotes, full-color endpaper maps, and an index." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

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• Titre: The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Éditeur: The Library of America, New York
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: Fine