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The American Civil War: 365 Days
written by Margaret E. Wagner
Studio : "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
by "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
Publisher : "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
Released : 2006-04-01
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780810958470
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 9 reviews)
List Price : $29.95
Our Price : $6.18
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Product Description |
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Presented in 12 thematic sections, this visual history of America's epochal conflict features more than 500 items drawn from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress, including Mathew Brady's iconic photographs; period drawings, lithographs, and woodcuts; important manuscripts like the Gettysburg Address; political and theatrical posters; and ephemera like the contents of Lincoln's pockets the night he was assassinated. A running timeline notes an important-or intriguing lesser-known-event for each calendar day, while excerpts from diaries, letters, speeches, postwar memoirs, and other first-person accounts lend immediacy to the informative text. A vivid mix of words and images, The American Civil War: 365 Days captures the drama, the horror, the epic sweep, and the human toll of this unparalleled American clash at arms like no other book before it. |
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The book itself and particularly the illustrations, are incredible, but I found the factoids in parentheses quite distracting from the main text, as they generally weren't related to whatever else was on a particular page or topic. |
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I was disappointed. I'm fairly well read on the civil war. This was disjointed--hard to see the theme. The technique of placing a day's activity opposite a picture or illustration that had nothing to do with it was weird. Also these "days" did not follow any chronolgy that I could detect.
Might interest someone as a casual first time read on the war.--very superficial.
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enjoyable, but a little confusing |
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I'm still enjoying this book, especially at the sale price. The 365 days listed are all over the place, from one year to the other,as each of the important dates are not in any particular order. However, the painting, artwork and details pertaining to the picture on the opposing page are very informative regarding the details surrounding that artwork. It's just too bad that the sequencing of dates,(at the bottom of the page) is all over the place. A heavy book, but I believe has a lot to offer. |
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Compelling. |
Margaret E. Wagner, The American Civil War: 365 Days form the Library of Congress (Abrams, 2006)
It took me a very long time to get through this. A good deal of the reason is that the book is, despite its relatively small dimensions, massive; this is not one you'll be carrying with you on your morning commute or reading in the park. You may want to get it a podium of its very own. It's probably worth it.
Wagner selected, as the subtitle tells you, three hundred sixty-five (actually, closer to five hundred; there are a number of small inset pictures, and many pages have more than one picture) photos, handbills, posters, and other ephemera from the Civil War era, and presents them here with some framing text. Actually, "some framing text" is an understatement-- you'll spend as much time reading as you will contemplating photographs, and Wagner's charm is that she spends a good deal of time illuminating dark corners of the war neglected in history books, or shining different lights on them than we're used to seeing. The result is a quite different look at the war than we're used to, and that makes this absorbing and worth reading. Just make sure you have someplace sturdy to set it while doing so. **** |
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Makes the Civil War a reality |
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This book was wonderful. I have never been overly interested in the Civil War until reading/looking at this book. The division of the book into topics helped me analyze different general aspects of conflict and concern at the time, and the phenomenal selection of photos, maps, drawings, cartoons humanized the time period and the war itself and made it very real. The book also filled in some historical holes for me: The picture of George Armstrong Custer as a young officer, for example, gave me a sense of Custer as a man, as well as of how the history of the Old West fits together with that of the North and South. I borrowed the book from the library, couldn't put it down, rushed right out and bought it. |
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