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Battle Cry of Freedom (Paperback)
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Battle Cry of Freedom (Paperback)
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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 analytical insight, 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 masterful
chronicle 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 and Southern 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 in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the
bulwark of American 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. 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 that
transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.
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