Fateful Lightning A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Name: Fateful Lightning A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
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ISBN: 9780199843282

ISBN-10: 0199843287

ISBN-13: 9780199843282

Edition: 2012

Authors: Allen C. Guelzo

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The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion in property. The war also sparked some of the most heroic moments in American history and enshrined a galaxy of American heroes. Above all, it permanently ended the practice of slavery and proved, in an age of resurgent monarchies, that a liberal democracy could survive the most frightful of challenges.InFateful Lightning, two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a marvelous portrait of the Civil War and its era,…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/18/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.21" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.826



Acknowledgments



A Nation Announcing Itself



The Game of Balances



Year of Meteors



To War upon Slavery: The East and Emancipation, 1861ï¿½1862



Elusive Victories: East and West, 1862ï¿½1863



The Soldier's Tale



The Manufacture of War



The Year That Trembled: East and West, 1863



World Turned Upside Down



Stalemate and Triumph



A Dim Shore Ahead


Epilogue


Further Reading


Index