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The generals' Civil War : what their memoirs can teach us today
- Title
- The generals' Civil War : what their memoirs can teach us today / Stephen Cushman.
- Author
- Cushman, Stephen, 1956-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-8065 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 230 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In this book, Stephen Cushman considers Civil War generals' memoirs as literary works of art and examines how they remain vital to understanding the interaction of memory, imagination, and the writing of American history. Drawing on methods from history and literary studies, Cushman analyses how generals Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph E. Johnston, George B. McClellan, Philip H. Sheridan, William T. Sherman, and Richard Taylor crafted memoirs that shaped the practice of Civil War writing generally. Cushman particularly assesses how nineteenth-century market forces shaped the production of memoirs and, therefore, memories of the war itself; how audiences have engaged with the memoirs to create memories that continually change with time and circumstance; and what these texts tell us about current conflicts over the history and meanings of the Civil War"--
- Series Statement
- Civil War America
- Uniform Title
- Civil War America (Series)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Why generals? -- Surrender according to Joseph E. Johnston and William T. Sherman -- Destruction and reconstruction in Richard Taylor's Happy Valley -- Ulysses S. Grant and the achievement of simplicity -- George B. McClellan's many turnings -- The merit of Philip H. Sheridan's memoir campaign -- Coda: Mark Twain and the Mississippi of memory.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-8065
- ISBN
- 9781469665016
- 1469665018
- 9781469666020
- 1469666022
- LCCN
- 2021009992
- 40030768607
- OCLC
- 1243907060
- Author
- Cushman, Stephen, 1956- author.
- Title
- The generals' Civil War : what their memoirs can teach us today / Stephen Cushman.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Civil War AmericaCivil War America (Series)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1861-1865
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030768607
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-8065