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The Selected Essays of T. Harry Williams (Paperback)
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The Selected Essays of T. Harry Williams (Paperback)
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This first collection of the essays of the late T. Harry Williams
brings together some of the best shorter works of a man who was, by
any standard, one of the finest historians of our time. Spanning
the range of Williams' interests, this volume contains essays on
the Civil War, Reconstruction, the ear of the world wars, military
affairs, the craft of the historian, and the careers of Abraham
Lincoln, Huey Long, and Lyndon Johnson. Williams' reputation rests
on such large-scale works as Lincoln and His Generals and the
Pulitzer-Prize winning biography Huey Long- exhaustively researched
studies, monumental in their scope and ambition. Providing Williams
with the chance to let his gaze probe beyond the fixed borders of
such works, the essay was a flexible medium in which he could
freely pursue some of the ideas that grew out of his daily regimen
of writing and reading. He used the essay to examine large themes
that spanned many areas of his interests as well as specific
incidents in the course of American history, to reach both a
popular audience and his fellow historians, to test ideas for books
in the planning stage, and to assess the works of his colleagues.
Among the essays brought together in this volume are That Strange
Sad War, in which Williams examines the Civil War as the first
truly, and tragically, modern war; Abraham Lincoln: Pragmatic
Democrat, which sees Lincoln as the supreme example in our history
of the union of principle and pragmatism in politics; and The
Louisiana Unification Movement of 1873, which traces the short
history of an ambitious attempt to bring about racial unity in
Reconstruction Louisiana. In Interlude: 1918-1939- an essay
published here for the first time- Williams analyzes the weakened
state of American military preparedness before Franklin Roosevelt
came into office and turned his attention to the growing threat of
Hitler's Germany. In The Macs and the Ikes: America's Two Military
Traditions, Williams contrasts the opposing types of military
leaders in American history- those generals in the mold of Dwight
Eisenhower who follow orders and submit to the power of the
president and Congress, and the more fractious generals such as
Douglas Macarthur, who view the military as an aristocracy of
courage and genius and bridle at the reigns of civilian authority.
Huey, Lyndon, and Southern Radicalism traces the common political
roots of two men Williams considered among the most successful
""power artists"" of the century. And in Lyndon Johnson and the Art
of Biography, Williams discusses his own plans to write a biography
of Johnson and speaks of his unapologetic belief in a great-man
theory of history.
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