{"product_id":"9780679755432","title":"The Civil War The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series - Ward, Geoffrey C. ; Kenneth Burns ; RICHARD BURNS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe Civil War The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series\u003c\/u\u003e by Ward, Geoffrey C. ; Kenneth Burns ; RICHARD BURNS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBased on the celebrated PBS television series about the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood—the complete text of the magisterial illustrated work of history that The New York Times hailed as \"a treasure for the eye and mind.\" \n\n\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n \"The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads: the suffering, the enormous tragedy of the whole thing.\" —Shelby Foote, from The Civil War \n\n\n\nNow Geoffrey Ward's magisterial work of history is available in a text-only edition that interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood: not just Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Robert E. Lee, but genteel Southern ladies and escaped slaves, cavalry officers and common foot soldiers who fought in Yankee blue and Rebel gray. \n\n\n\n The Civil War also includes essays by our most distinguished historians of the era: Don E. Fehrenbacher, on the war's origins; Barbara J. Fields, on the freeing of the slaves; Shelby Foote, on the war's soldiers and commanders; James M. McPherson, on the political dimensions of the struggle; and C. Vann Woodward, assessing the America that emerged from the war's ashes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994","offers":[{"title":"The Civil War The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series \/ Very Good","offer_id":55119841034532,"sku":"9780679755432VG","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_d59f940d-4c88-460f-bd04-b041046de619.jpg?v=1781793862","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9780679755432","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}