![]() Synopsis: From the Pulitzer Prize?winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy ?The best concise book we have on the subject. I had never visited Gettysburg, knew almost nothing about that battle before I read the book, but here it all came alive."-Ken Burns, Filmmaker, The Civil War. The Killer Angels is unique, sweeping, unforgettable-a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America's destiny. Shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled beauty were also the casualties of war. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. McPherson, Author of Battle Cry of Freedom. A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant."-James M. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. He is the author of many works and textbooks on Southern history, including Still Fighting the Civil War, Southern Histories, Black, White and Southern, and Promised Land. About the Author: David Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. The "fiery trial" of war transformed our country-a conflagration captured in vivid detail in America Aflame. Religion was supplanted by a gospel of economic and scientific progress, and the South was left behind. The victorious North moved ahead, a land of innovation and industry. The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not: It made the United States one nation and eliminated the divisive force of slavery. ![]() Where other scholars have seen the conflict as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield paints it as America's greatest failure: a breakdown of society caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the world of politics. = Synopsis: In this spellbinding history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. Extensive yellow highlighting and writing in book. ![]() Minimal damages to front, back cover, and spine.
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