![]() ![]() Lee, a brilliant general and a true gentleman, yet still a product of his time and place and Abraham Lincoln, the leader and orator whose mythical figure still looms large over our cultural landscape. Grant, struggling to write his memoirs with the same courage and determination that marked his successes on the battlefield Robert E. ![]() McPherson offers memorable portraits of the great leaders who people the landscape of the Civil War: Ulysses S. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." Now, in Drawn With the Sword, McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and engaging essays on some of the most enduring questions of the Civil War, written in the masterful prose that has become his trademark.Filled with fresh interpretations, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Drawn With the Sword explores such questions as why the North won and why the South lost (emphasizing the role of contingency in the Northern victory), whether Southern or Northern aggression began the war, and who really freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln or the slaves themselves. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. ![]()
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