ISBN10: 0195038630, ISBN13: 9780195038637, [publisher: OUP USA 1988-06-16, New York] Hardcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1988]

Oxford University Press, Date: 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Not a First. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket. Signed By The Author on Half-Title. Later Printing. Winner Of the Pulitzer Prize. Great Book On Our Civil War.. 1988. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195038630 US

ISBN10: 0195038630, ISBN13: 9780195038637, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover First Edition Hardcover. Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analyticalinsight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterfulchronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views 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.The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern andSouthern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast indefense of the ...