"... the Real War Will Never Get in the Books" Selections from Writers During the Civil War

ISBN-10: 0195098374

ISBN-13: 9780195098372

Edition: N/A

Authors: Louis P. Masur

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Drawing on a wide range of material, including diaries, letters, and essays, Masur captures the reactions, as the war was waged, of writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry Adams, and Louisa May Alcott.

Book details

List price: $37.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/13/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Louis P.Masur, a professor of history at the City University of New York and the editor of Reviews in American History, is the author of Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865. He lives in New Jersey.



Henry Brooks Adams


Louisa May Alcott


Lydia Maria Child


John Esten Cooke


John William De Forest


Frederick Douglass


Ralph Waldo Emerson


Charlotte Forten


Nathaniel Hawthorne


Thomas Wentworth Higginson


Herman Melville


William Gilmore Simms


Harriet Beecher Stowe


Walt Whitman


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