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Bruce Catton's Civil War: Boxed 3 Volume Set
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by Bruce Catton
Sales Rank: 124474
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$19.99
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 1680 pages
Published by: Phoenix Press 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1898800227
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1898800224
Book Dimensions:
8.1 x 5.2 x 4.4 inches
Weighs: 3.4 pounds
Product Description
Three Volume set includes: The Coming Fury, Terrible Swift Sword, and Never Call Retreat. A journalist and public official before becoming editor of American Heritage magazine, Bruce Catton won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his Civil War history A Stillness at Appomattox. As for this monumental Civil War trilogy, first published in the 1960s, historian Henry Steel Commager appraised: "better than any other history of our Civil War it combines narrative vigor, literary grace, freshness of view and independence of judgment, and a kind of catholic spirit which embraces the whole vast tumultuous scene." The first volume opens with the Democratic Party's Charleston convention in 1860 and the split that resulted in two Democratic candidates, followed by the Republican Convention and Lincoln's victory. The country first drifted and then was swept into war, even as Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were declaring that a peaceful solution could be found. The second volume shows how the Union and Confederacy slowly reconciled themselves to an all-out war, and how the statures of Lee, Grant, Sherman, Jefferson Davis, and many others emerged. McClellan's character is impaled here in extracts from his arrogant letters. In the final volume, Lincoln remains resolute in the belief that a house divided against itself cannot stand, while Jefferson Davis struggles valiantly for political and economic stability. Catton traces the most bitter years of the war here, from the fighting at Fredericksburg to the surrender at Appomattox and the end of the Confederacy, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Each book includes a section of color maps, and the three volumes are contained in a blue and red box.
Reader Reviews
Phoenix Press has done the reader a great service by issuing this attractive and inexpensive boxed paperback edition of Bruce Catton's classic three volume history of the Civil War. Begun in 1958 and released between 1961 and 1965, the three books, THE COMING FURY, TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD and NEVER CALL RETREAT take the reader from the fractured Democratic Convention of 1860 to the assassination of President Lincoln. Catton's books are unique for their almost lyrical readability. Catton's knowledge of his subject is exhaustive and his writing style is passionate. Drawing the reader along, Catton makes it possible to finish the three thick books in virtually three sittings. Catton's thesis is that the South began the war at a decided material disadvantage and he demonstrates how, even as early as First Manassas, the die was cast for a probable Confederate defeat, tempered only by the Union's initial unwillingness to see the war for what it was, a shattering epochal contest. The South's uncertain sense of nationhood is illuminated in its adoption of national symbols: At the Montgomery Convention, several delegates wanted to name the Confederacy the "United States of America"; Confederate generals squabbled over rank based on their West Point (i.e., Union) rankings; the South's national holiday was Washington's Birthday, it was established on Jeffersonian principles, and its Stars and Bars was confusingly similar to the Stars and Stripes, so much so as to lead to tragedies in battle. Imagine George Washington dedicating the American Revolution to Queen Elizabeth the First as a counterpoint. Against this, Catton posits the unsure steps of the North, at first all but willing to let the "wayward sisters depart in peace," then battling the "armed combinations," then fighting for Union; and finally, dedicating the war to ensuring that "government of the people, by the people shall not vanish from the earth." Thanks to Catton, THE CIVIL WAR becomes a living, breathing and evolving experience, not just a history.
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