![]() ![]() His most recent book, War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861–1865, his 20th, appeared last year. Now retired after a long career as a history professor at Princeton, McPherson continues to publish about the Civil War. ![]() Lee and Abraham Lincoln to common soldiers writing loved ones on the eve of battle, and the myriad interpretations of an outcome that still seems not fully resolved today-appears destined to last as long as the United States remains a country. ![]() That fascination-with the Civil War’s causes and violence, its great players from Robert E. The ongoing sesquicentennial celebration has only redoubled that flood of new material and public fascination with the war. Since then, America has devoured a seemingly endless stream of new histories, film, and documentaries about the war. The book was the blasting clap that set off the explosion of popular interest in the war that then greeted Ken Burns’s epoch-making PBS documentary The Civil War when it was released two years later. McPherson miraculously manages between to recount the origins of the war and its progress in virtually every theater of fighting through its entire four years, explain the political maelstrom that engulfed both the North and South, touch on heartbreaking stories of individual warriors, follow the machinations of government officials, and describe the military, cultural, and social consequences of the greatest cataclysm in American history, all while carrying the reader along within a brisk and vivid narrative. We will then contact you with the appropriate action.The book’s popularity is not hard to explain.
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