A Worse Place Than Hell: How The Civil War Battle Of Fredericksburg Changed Nation John Matteson Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία History General Issues

December 1862 Drove The United States Towards A Breaking Point Battle Of Fredericksburg Shattered Union Forces And Northern Confidence As Abraham Lincoln’s Government Threatened To Fracture This Critical Moment Also Tested Five Extraordinary Individuals Whose Lives Reflect Soul Nation Changes They Underwent Led Profound Repercussions In Country’s Law Literature Politics Popular Mythology Taken Together Their Stories Offer Striking Restatement What It Means Be American Guided By Patriotism Driven Desire All Moved Singular Destinies Young Harvard Intellectual Steeped Courageous Ideals Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Confronted Grave Challenges His Concept Duty One-Eyed Army Chaplain Arthur Fuller Pitted Frail Body Against Evils Slavery Walt Whitman—A Gay Brooklyn Poet Condemned Guardians Propriety Louisa May Alcott—A Struggling Writer Seeking An Authentic Voice Her Father’s Admiration-Tended Soldiers’ Wracked Bodies Nurses On Other Side National Schism John Pelham West Cadet From Alabama Achieved Unique Excellence Artillery Tactics He Served Doomed Misbegotten Cause Worse Place Than Hell Brings Prodigious War With Intimacy Individual Matteson Interweaves Historic Personal Work Beautiful Is Powerful Σελίδες: 528 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0312 Διαστάσεις: 16 5X16 5Cm