The Destructive War
William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
Royster, Charles
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BOOK SUMMARY
From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh She
BOOK SYNOPSIS
From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their strategies, and the feelings they inspired in their countrymen. At once an incisive dual biography, hypnotically engrossing military history, and a cautionary examination of the American penchant for patriotic bloodshed, The Destructive War is a work of enormous power.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Royster's intriguing analyses fill every page with new information and offer a fresh interpretation of our bloodiest conflict...exhaustively researched, artistically written, brilliantly argued."
-- Boston Globe
"Parts of The Destructive War are as good as anything written...during the last generation...a masterful narrative."
-- Washington Post Book World
"A fascinating history of the ideas held by the people who fought the war...fresh, intriguing, philosophical." -- Detroit Free Press
"An illuminating interpretation." -- Wall Street Journal
Winner of the Lincoln Prize
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679738789
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679738787
Copyright: 1993
Dewey Decimal: 973.7
Library of Congress: 92056370
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 531
Paper Weight (lb): 1.15
