Death and the Civil War, as told to The Week magazine:Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPhersonRead about another book on the list.
McPherson's Pulitzer-winning 1988 book is the best single-volume account of the Civil War ever written. It's an extraordinary book that synthesizes every salient cause, current and consequence pertinent to the four-year near-holocaust America visited on itself.
Battle Cry of Freedom is one of Malcolm Jones's eleven best books on the Civil War.
--Marshal Zeringue
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