Franklin Library Bruce Catton books:
Volume I of The Army Of The Potomac trilogy, this is Bruce Catton's superb evocation of the early years of the Civil War when the army was under the command of the dashing General George B. McClellan.
Glory Road - Army of the Potomac Book 2
The critical months between the autumn of 1862 and midsummer 1863 is the focus of Glory Road. During this time the outcome of the Civil War is determined, as the battles at Fredericksburg, Rappahannock and Chancellorsville set the state for Union victory as Gettysburg.
A Stillness at Appomattox - Army of the Potomac Book 3
America's foremost Civil War historian recounts the final year of the Civil War in his final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy.
Bruce Catton takes the reader through the battles of the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle, Cold Harbot, the Crater, and on through the horrible months to one moment at Appomattox. Grant, Meade, Sheridan, and Lee vividly come to life in all their failings and triumphs.
When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War.
Gettysburg: The Final Fury
A
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and respected authority on the Civil War
clarifies the causes of the battle of Gettysburg and brings alive the
most famous battle ever fought on American soil.
The Bold and Magnificent Dream
The
Cattons, popular-historian father & academic-historian son, offer
"a combination of narrative & interpretive essay" on early America
that seeks "not to break new ground but to impose our own thoughts &
order upon conventional historical material." The book's building
blocks are the European background of settlement, colonial growth, the
revolution, the adoption of the Constitution, the emergence of political
parties & the War of 1812. The authors are familiar with much of
the pertinent & recent historical literature. Their facts are
consistently accurate & their evaluation of the individual
historical components of their story are sensible. But their broad
interpretive overlay is little more than a rehash of the old patriotic,
Whiggish account of the inexorable development of America as a land of
democracy & material opportunity (except for blacks & Indians)
& of Americans as an individualistic & hard-working people.
Intrinsic to this genre is retrospective history, & the authors see
in the early 18th-century colonial societies the seeds of everything
from Lexington & Concord to the rise of industry. But, to their
credit, the Cattons are willing to confront facts that do not strictly
conform to the traditional outlines of the American dream story. They
note, for example, that England practiced religious toleration before
the colonies & that most indentured servants never achieved material
success.
The Coming Fury - The Centennial History of the Civil War Series Book 1
A
thrilling, page-turning piece of writing that describes the forces
conspiring to tear apart the United States with the disintegrating
political processes and rising tempers finally erupting at Bull Run.
In
words that weave history into art, Bruce Catton has created a book
about the coming of the Civil War that is at once a broad canvas and a
revealing close-up. Different from anything he has written before,
except in the sheer beauty of its narrative style, The Coming Fury is
conceived as classic tragedy; as a series of ever-narrowing circles of
choice with fewer and fewer men to make them, enclosing, finally, but
two men faced with almost no choice at all.
Reflections on the Civil War
Pulitzer
Prize-winning writer Bruce Catton was America’s greatest Civil War
historian, and he made the events of that seminal conflict come alive
for millions. In this, his final book, edited from many hours of tapes
after Catton’s death, he goes right to the heart and soul of what
brought this nation to the battlefield. He reflects not only on military
history, but also on the actual experience of army life for the common
soldier; 17 period drawings by soldier-artist John Geyser, a young
private in the Union Army, enhance the insightful words. Catton plunges
into the spirit of the time to uncover the motives and emotions that
caused the flood of war.
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