Serious Civil War buffs will delight in this magisterial treatment. McPherson's accompanying captions sometimes overdo the characterological readings (in one portrait of a Confederate general we can supposedly""almost see Breckinridge's handlebar mustache twitching in anger""), but they provide interesting biographical background as well as piquant details and an indelible period feel. This new edition eliminates the footnotes and trims a fifth of the text to make way for color maps of major battles and campaigns and hundreds of photographs, cartoons and artist's depictions from the period. An abridged, illustrated version of the book was published in 2003. It is the sixth volume of the Oxford History of the United States series. Encyclopedic in scope, it synthesizes political and military history into a sweeping narrative of America's national epic, one that paints the North's victory as the triumph of a""revolutionary future"" of""competitive, egalitarian, free-labor capitalism"" over the tradition-bound and hierarchical society of the South. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a Pulitzer Prizewinning book on the American Civil War, published in 1988, by James M. James McPhersons fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war. McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning opus is by now the standard one-volume treatment of the Civil War.
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