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Book Talk: Civil War Classics

Recommended by George Forgie

Book Talk books:

  • David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1977)
  • Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood, Abraham Lincoln (1916)
  • Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (1943)
  • David Blight, Frederick Douglass’s Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (1991)
  • Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War (1984)
  • James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988)
  • Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (1987)

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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1999) A Historian Views Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012) The Works of Steven Hahn This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)

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