Battle Cry of Freedom

The definitive study, meticulous in its scholarship and compulsive in its readability * Financial Times *
McPherson is wonderfully lucid… Above all, everything is in a living relationship with everything else … Omitting nothing important, whether military, political or economic, he yet manages to make everything he touches drive the narrative forward … historical writing of the highest order * The New York Times *
A distinguished contribution to American history … He has succeeded brilliantly. He has written what will surely become the standard one-volume history of the great conflict which forged America as a united nation * Independent *
Absolutely brilliant … McPherson has fresh approaches to the war’s background, the four years of struggle and the aftermath * Washington Post Book World *
McPherson wears with equal ease the hats of biographer, economist, sociologist and military historian .. Probably the best single-volume history of America’s Civil War yet written * Economist *

James McPherson is Professor Emeritus of American History at Princeton University. Battle Cry of Freedom won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.

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