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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
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Consider a war in which 25,000 soldiers are killed or wounded in a single battle, as they were at Gettysburg, or 16,000 in a single day, as at Antietam. The degree of suffering and hardship during the American Civil War has been well documented and analyzed in books and films from Margaret Mitchell's fictional Gone with the Wind to Bell Irvin W... »
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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Cronon's history of 19th-century Chicago is in fact the history of the widespread effects of a single city on millions of square miles of ecological, cultural, and economic frontier. Cronon combines archival accuracy, ecological evaluation, and a sweeping understanding of the impact of railroads, stockyards, catalog companies, and patterns of prope... »
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Thomas Jefferson
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This is billed as a concise, one-volume, biography of Mr. Jefferson. It is that, and I've seen worse books. It is quite well written, and does hit all the high points, and basic ideas. It even clarifies some of the ideas rather well. However......
I have a couple of complaints.....
[1] It skips around, placing events out of se... »
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American Transcendentalism: A History
I found the sections dealing with the sociologiccal impacts of Transcendentalism quite interesting. However, those parts treating the theological implicat... »
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)
David Laskin's meticulously researched novel of the Dakota/Nebraska blizzard of 1888 is a heart-wrenching yet beautiful work of literature. He painfully d... »
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