New York Times The Complete Civil War 1861-1865
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New York Times The Complete Civil War 1861-1865 by Harold Holzer
This book allows you to experience the history, the politics and the individual events of the American Civil War as never seen before, through the original daily reportage of The New York Times, America's leading newspaper of public record. One of the only newspapers with correspondents on the front lines, The NY Times's complete coverage of the war is now available for the first time in this unique book-and-disc package. Includes: - All the contemporary coverage of every campaign and every battle in the American Civil War. - The reporting on the leaders, the heroes, the triumphant, the defeated and the oppressed. - All told in 65,328 eyewitness reports and contemporary New York Times articles. 300 are included in the book and all the rest on an accompanying DVD.
Harold Holzer is one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He has published over thirty books, including 'The New York Times' Complete Civil War (Black Dog and Leventhal), and is the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Lincoln Prize and the National Humanities Medal. He lectures widely, appears on television frequently, and has written for the New York Times, American Heritage, and America's Civil War. Most recently he served as co-chair of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and is senior vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Find him online at www.haroldholzer.com.Craig Symonds is a distinguished historian of the American Civil War and a retired professor and chairman of the history department at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of 11 books including Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battlesthat Shaped American History, which won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in 2006, and Lincoln and His Admirals, which won the 2009 Lincoln Prize. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781579128456 |
| ISBN 10 | 1579128459 |
| Title | New York Times The Complete Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Author | Harold Holzer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2010-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Prizes | Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Reference) 2011 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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