MCPHERSON, James M.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.
"We are all Americans Now": First Edition of Battle Cry of Freedom; Signed by James McPherson
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
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First edition, early printing of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by James McPherson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, numbers to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
The book's title "Battle Cry of Freedom" refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict. The South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war, slavery, and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. The standard one-volume history of the Civil War. Listed on Modern Library's 100 great nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.
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