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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War

Edmund Wilson

Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most eloquently recorded era in American history.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Sep 1st, 1994
  • Pages: 850
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.03in - 5.02in - 1.95in - 1.98lb
  • EAN: 9780393312560
  • Categories: American - GeneralUnited States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)Military - General

Praise for this book

[Patriotic Gore] has long enjoyed a special and respected place as one of the most remarkable and readable books about the greatest tragedy in American history.--C. Vann Woodward