“So many people are so furious about so many things,” cried Margie Bonner, “lobbyists giving bribes, Congress taking bribes—special interests running everything—Wall Street, the banks, US jobs staying overseas, unemployment and wars and dope peddling going on and on, decaying schools, overstuffed slums and prisons, illegal immigration, idiots writing the textbooks, and they all expect my husband to help! From one small incident, they make him a national hero. From one casual remark: ‘The lobbyists and Congress crooks should all be dragged out and shot,’ people think he plans it and will form a new party TO MAKE IT HAPPEN – AND THEY ALL WANT TO JOIN! He can’t deny he’d like to see it happen. The notion gives so many people comfort. We truly need a new party. So he can’t back down. We want to do good, but it is all so complicated—Whom can you trust, for instance, of those rushing in to be your allies? Where will it end?” wonders Margie. “Where will it end?”
Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times Bestseller, Battle Cry of Freedom is universally recognized as the definitive account of the Civil War. It was hailed in The New York Times as "historical writing of the highest order." The Washington Post called it "the finest single volume on the war and its background." And The Los Angeles Times wrote that "of the 50,000 books written on the Civil War, it is the finest compression of that national paroxysm ever fitted between two covers." Now available in a splendid new edition is The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom. Boasting some seven hundred pictures, including a hundred and fifty color images and twenty-four full-color maps, here is the ultimate gift book for everyone interested in American history. McPherson has selected all the illustrations, including rare contemporary photographs, period cartoons, etchings, woodcuts, and paintings, carefully choosing those that best illuminate the narrative. More important, he has written extensive captions (some 35,000 words in all, virtually a book in themselves), many of which offer genuinely new information and interpretations that significantly enhance the text. The text itself, streamlined by McPherson, remains a fast-paced narrative that brilliantly captures two decades of contentious American history, from the Mexican War to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. The reader will find a truly masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities--as well as McPherson's thoughtful commentary on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. A must-have purchase for the legions of Civil War buffs, The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom is both a spectacularly beautiful volume and the definitive account of the most important conflict in our nation's history.
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