Cowley, Robert, ed. With my face to the enemy; perspectives on the Civil War.
Berkley. 522p. map. c2001. 0-425-18458-7. $15.95. JSA JSA - Japanese Standards Association.
This highly lauded compilation Compiling a program. See compiler. of 34 articles on the Civil War has
much to recommend it. The authors chosen include some of the most famous
names among Civil War historians. David Herbert Donald David Herbert Donald (b. 1920, Goodman, Mississippi) is a historian of the American Civil War.
Donald took his PhD in 1945 under James G. Randall at the University of Illinois. He taught at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins and, from 1973, Harvard University. has only one
article here, but it is an excellent chapter taken from his biography of
Lincoln. Gary Gallagher has a well-considered article on Lee. James
McPherson James McPherson is the name of several people: - James Alan McPherson, Pulitzer prize winner and instructor at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop
- James Alpin McPherson, Australian bushranger
- James B. McPherson, General in the United States Civil War
- James M.
, Stephen Sears and Gary Gallagher, all well-known experts, are
represented, as well as Noah Andre Trudeau and Joseph Glatthaar. The
essays run about 15 pages each, and each first appeared in the Quarterly
Journal of Military History, which, despite its scholarly title, is
written for the general public and includes no annotation 1. (programming, compiler) annotation - Extra information associated with a particular point in a document or program. Annotations may be added either by a compiler or by the programmer. at all. The
book also lacks an index. Despite these drawbacks, the wide range of
topics, from battleground to personalities to politics, and the general
accessibility of the material recommend the work. Patricia A. Moore,
Brookline, MA
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