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Title: Why the Confederacy Lost by Gabor S. Boritt ISBN: 0-19-508549-3 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Find your seat and listen to the lecturers...
Comment: I didn't find much new information with this text. Perhaps a novice reader would find much of this of interest. Given that these are a series of "lectures" of sorts from periodic seminars at a Gettysburg "think-tank", I found the reading to be somewhat flat - indeed, I felt like I was sitting in an auditorium listening to the respective authors "sounding-out" chapters for their next book! Glad I borrowed this from my local library!?#
Of interest however, was points made to question the often presupposed inevitability of Northern victory, as well as a recognition that the contributions of free/escaped blacks to the Union cause is attaining almost "mythical" status! A nod to political correct revisionism, perhaps?
Rating: 5
Summary: Scholarly and informative.
Comment: Mr Boritt does an outstanding job in bringing together several noted historians under one roof. Each author goes to the key underlying tones and brings the reader right to the point without dragging him through endless studies of tactics and military leadership.
This work is well balanced and sheds light into a subject that is often talked about but very rarely on an educated playing field. Too often basic tactics and strategy are molded together using 20th Century research methods to explain past issues and ideals. This work does not suffer from that finite method of study.
The ". . .hard-won triumph of the North was far from inevitable." How very true! This book is a must for every Civil War bookshelf.
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Title: Why the North Won the Civil War by Henry Steele Commager, Richard N. Current, T. Harry Williams, Norman A. Graebner, David Herbert Donald, David M. Potter ISBN: 0684825066 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 05 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Why the South Lost the Civil War by Richard E. Beringer, William N., Jr. Still, Archer Jones ISBN: 0820313963 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Civil War and Reconstruction by David Herbert Donald, Jean H. Baker, Michael F. Holt, Michael Holt ISBN: 0393974278 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $54.00 |
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Title: Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction by James M. McPherson ISBN: 0072317361 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 30 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $47.19 |
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Title: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson ISBN: 0195124995 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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