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Walking the Ground - Making American History. A Memoir of Edwin Cole Bearss (Hardcover)
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Walking the Ground - Making American History. A Memoir of Edwin Cole Bearss (Hardcover)
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This second book of the Edwin Cole Bearss memoir begins with his
first days in a 40-year career in the National Park Service.
Beginning as the Park Historian at the Vicksburg National Military
Park in September, 1955, the book covers his rise to Chief
Historian, now Emeritus. He has always professed the importance of
walking the ground to understand the outcomes of all battles, but
particularly those that created, and then consecrated, the United
States of America. Said to know more about Civil War battlefields
than any other historian of his time, this book describes how he
helped create and interpret much of our American history. He first
learned the importance of "walking the ground" when in combat on
the Pacific island of New Britain. There, a few inches of earth
saved his life after having four Japanese bullets tear into him at
what Marines would soon dub "Suicide Creek." His early years in
Montana, the account of this action on New Britain, his chance
meeting with the actor and fellow Montanan Gary Cooper, and his 27
months in hospitals is published in the book Walking the Ground:
From Big Sky to Semper Fi also by NOVA. His Government career
created National Parks and Presidential Historic Parks, including
his direct relationships with President Lyndon B. Johnson and
President Jimmy Carter. He created and improved many parks, and
thus, made the history that Americans see and read when they
experience these important American lands, battlefields and
buildings. Ed Bearss has made indelible marks on the American
landscape, and in so doing, defined much of the historical culture
of the United States. His contribution to our understanding of
American history is immense. He is the author of 140 National Park
Service reports, more than any other person to work for the
National Park Service.The quality and popularity of his tours and
books are rare among present-day historians. He has mentored
generations of younger historians who now teach American history,
and continue along the path he has pioneered. He has frequently
testified before Congress, was interviewed by television reporters
and guided senior-level Government officials in critical events in
American history. Ed Bearss became a television celebrity following
his appearance to mass television audiences who watched the Ken
Burns Civil War Series on PBS, leading to great demand in
Bearss-led battlefield history tours. For those many U.S. history
adventurers who have experienced his history tours, Ed Bearss'
words and mannerisms leap from the page as we follow him walking
Pickett's Charge at the Gettysburg; track John Wilkes Booth's
escape route after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln; recount
George Armstrong Custer's battlefield defeat by Native Americans
whose families he had attacked along the Little Big Horn River; and
words describing the WWI American sacrifice at Belleau Wood of U.S.
Marine mythology. This book will explain Ed Bearss' unsurpassed
contribution to the making of American history and the
strengthening our collective culture.
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