Alcott’s Little Women (1868) is a close second.ĥ. Alcott’s wonderful autobiographical novel about her experiences as a wartime nurse. Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches (1863).
Neely is yet another author who could have multiple titles on my list.Ĥ. This is not really a Lincoln book so much as it is a complex analysis of civil liberties in wartime. Neely Jr., The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (Oxford University Press). For more traditional Lincoln biographies, I think the best from a very long shelf of titles are the one-volume biographies by David Donald and by Richard Carwardine.ģ. I am a huge fan of Eric Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010). (Confederate artillerist Porter Alexander’s memoir would be a close second.)Ģ. President and the best memoir of the Civil War. Often described as the best book by a U.S.
Grant, The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Space constraints prevented us from including their answers to one of the questions we posed: What are the 10 best Civil War books ever published (nonfiction or fiction)? Below are their responses.ġ. Hulbert, James Marten, and Amy Murrell Taylor-for their opinions on a variety of popular topics, including the war's most overrated and underratred commanders, top turning points, most influential women, and best depictions on film. View your shopping basket or browse other items.For our latest newsstand-only special issue, The Civil War Almanac, we asked a panel of Civil War historians-J. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict.This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war thattransformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war-slavery-and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim.
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 Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. 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. 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.
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