Battle Cry of Freedom (book)

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the American Civil War and its causes[1] published in 1988 by James M. McPherson.[2] Writing for The New York Times, historian Hugh Brogan described it as "...the best one-volume treatment of its subject I have ever come across. It may actually be the best ever published."[3] Battle Cry of Freedom is volume six in the Oxford History of the United States.

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References

  1. ^ McPherson, James M., Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988), p. ix.
  2. ^ "1989 Winners and Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes. http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1989. Retrieved 2008-08-18. 
  3. ^ Brogan, Hugh (1988-02-14). "THE BLOODIEST OF WARS". The New York Times. pp. 1. http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/mcpherson-freedom.html. Retrieved 2009-03-23.