Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) | James M. McPherson | Great Book--Excellent Read--Highly Informative.

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	Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) James M. McPherson Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 - 952 pages average customer review:based on 180 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

If only all history books could be written like this

The author has a gift for narrating history. His sections covering the years leading up to the War were enlightening and exciting to read (at times I felt reading as if there was still hope that War was avoidable!) He packs tons of information in every page but never to the point that it becomes tedious or pedantic. He covers not just military aspects of the war and even the denser areas (political, economic and social topics) make amenable reading.

McPherson has been faulted by some readers as having a liberal, pro-North slant. I agree he has a certain point of view, but overall his bias is subtle, and he presents a very equitable account.

This must be the best starting point for anyone wishing to learn more about the Civil War beyond their history textbooks.

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Great Book--Excellent Read--Highly Informative.

I am enthralled and intrigued with the history of the Civil War. I read history for information,answers to questions, as well as the authors incitefullmess. This book is an easy read, with flowing commentary that provides answers, and makes the reader THINK? This is the BEST book I have ever read about this subject.
The many events that occur are quite clear and plausible. I highly recommend it.

Buy it, read it, keep it forever

James McPherson's work has rightly been called the standard one-volume history of the US Civil War. It's comprehensive yet detailed, scholarly yet readable, modern but not anachronistic. A Great Book. I love my local library, but you really should have this one on your bookshelf at home.

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Perhaps the best narrative historian of our time

I find myself rereading this book about once every 18 months or so. I've read recent books on the Gettysburgh Address, the Second Inaugural, and Lincoln's 1860 Cooper Union speech, as well as Doris Kearns Goodwins's Team of Rivals, but after tackling these other works I always return to McPherson, for he, in one volume, places the war and the era into the broader historical context that helps enrich other histories of the era. Indeed, almost the first quarter of the book is about this context, and is by itself one of the best histories of mid-19th century America before the Civil War.

McPherson is the greatest narrative historian, I would argue, because narratie is both his analytic method and his expositional style, and few historians \combine careful research with clear and compelling writing style the way McPherson does. The book requires a considerable commitment, but the commitment will be richly rewarded.

If you like this book, I also recommend "Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution," which is one of the best treatments of the idea that the Civil War was the formative event of the *modern* United States.

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Unarguably one of the best books ever written about the civil war

History of war as it should be written, factual, gripping, deeply involving, disturbing, revealing and horrifying. By far the best single volume on the Civil War

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