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Title: All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South by Stephen William Berry II ISBN: 0-19-514567-4 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliantly conceived and impressingly delivered.
Comment: "All that Makes a Man", By Stephen Berry is the first installment of what should be a notable career for the young historian. As far as first books go, this one delivers the goods and never allows the reader's interest to wane. This is the story of the average men and women caught up in the maelstrom that was the Civil War, as told from the Confederate perspective. Berry provides insight into the motivations and pressures of southern manhood. He crafts a story that begins with the linking of manhood and patriotism in the formulating period of the rebellion, the love for woman as being central to a soldier's will to continue the struggle, and finally the reclamation of manhood and love to disengage from the humiliation of a losing war effort. By using the letters of the soldiers, the author provides evidence to support his claim that men do everything for the love of a woman, especially during the hyper-masculine victorian era. "All that Makes A Man" is recommended for anyone willing to penetrate deeper than oft repeated Civil War battlefield history to learn more about the reasons so many were willing to sacrifice everything.
Rating: 5
Summary: A new perspective on the Civil War
Comment: All That Makes a Man really humanizes the Civil War. Too many histories of the conflict lament only the mangling of so many bodies. There is no sense of the abrupt end to so many life stories. By going back into the antebellum period, the author makes sure the reader knows the generation who fought the war BEFORE they got killed. By the time they do start dying you have a much better sense not only of how it happened but of what was lost. It wasn't that bodies died or hearts stopped beating; it was that somebodies died and all their hearts contained -- emotions, memories, promise -- was poured out like water. If you want a different perspective on the war, I highly recommend this book.
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Title: Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight ISBN: 0674008197 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust ISBN: 0679781048 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era by Ira Berlin ISBN: 1565844408 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Why the Civil War Came by G. S. Boritt, Gabor S. Boritt, David W. Blight ISBN: 0195113764 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner ISBN: 0060964316 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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