Ordeal by Fire, Vol. 2: The Civil War - Softcover

McPherson, James M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070458383 ISBN 13: 9780070458383

Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill, 1993

Synopsis

VOLUME II: The Civil War section of Ordeal by Fire captures the human drama and narrative excitement of a unique tragic, and transitional event in American history. This paperback consists of Chapters 10-25 of Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, Second Edition.

About this title

About the Author:

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History at Princeton University where he has taught since 1962. He received his BA from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1958 and his PhD from The Johns Hopkins University in 1963. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a Scaver Institute Fellow at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California. In 1999, McPherson received the Public Humanities Award of the New Jersey Council of the Humanities. A leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author, McPherson has written many books including most recently, What They Fought For, 1861-1865 (1994), Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War (1996), For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997), and Is Blood Thicker Than Water? Crises of Modern Nationalism (1998).

About this edition

• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0070458383
• ISBN 13: 9780070458383
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 404