Reveille in Washington by Margaret Leech

Reveille in Washington by Margaret Leech

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Featuring a foreword by Battle Cry of Freedom author James McPherson

A vibrant portrait of Civil War-era Washington, D.C. that is packed and running over with the anecdotes, scandals, personalities, and tragi-comedies of the day (The New Yorker)

1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractured, squalid, colored by patriotism and treason, and deeply divided along the political lines that will soon embroil the nation in bloody conflict. Chaotic and corrupt, the young city is populated by bellicose congressmen, Confederate conspirators, and enterprising prostitutes. Soldiers of a volunteer army swing from the dome of the Capitol, assassins stalk the avenues, and Abraham Lincoln struggles to justify his presidency as the Union heads to war.

Reveille in Washington focuses on the everyday politics and preoccupations of Washington during the Civil War. From the stench of corpse-littered streets to the plunging lace on Mary Lincoln's evening gowns, Margaret Leech illuminates the city and its familiar figures--among them Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, William Seward, and Mary Surratt--in intimate and fascinating detail.

Leech's book remains widely recognized as both an impressive feat of scholarship and an uncommonly engrossing work of history.

Margaret Leech (1893-1974) was an American historian, novelist and dramatist. She twice received the Pulitzer Prize in history, for Reveille in Washington (1942) and In the Days of McKinley (1960); with the former she became the first woman to receive a Pulitzer in that category.

James McPherson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. His other bestselling books include For Cause and Comrades, Drawn with the Sword, What They Fought For; Gettysburg; and Fields of Fury. A professor at Princeton University, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Titel	Reveille in Washington
Autor	Margaret Leech
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2011-06-07
Seitenanzahl	624
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