America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
8 best books like America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation (David R. Goldfield): Gods and Generals, Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War, The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, Freedom: A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain, Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey
| Author | Jeff Shaara |
| ISBN | 1841580651 |
In a prequel of sorts to his father Michael Shaara's 1974 epic novel The Killer Angels, Jeff Shaara explores the lives of Generals Lee, Hancock, Jackson and Chamberlain as the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg approaches.
Shaara captures the disillusionment of both Lee and Hancock early in their...
Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War
| Author | Jeff Shaara |
| ISBN | 0345427521 |
With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels--ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history. Now, in Gone for...
The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers
No single group of men at West Point--or possibly any academy--has been so indelibly written into history as the class of 1846. The names are legendary: Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, George B. McClellan, Ambrose Powell Hill, Darius Nash Couch, George Edward Pickett, Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, and George...
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.
Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled...
Freedom: A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
| Author | William Safire |
| ISBN | 0380705842 |
I have read over 100 books about the Civil War and its characters - this is one of the best. I am not a big fan of William Safire - in fact, I liked nothing else he ever wrote - and as for his politics, well, let's just say that we rarely saw eye to eye. But this book is a miracle - a stirring but fully documented account...
| Author | Benjamin P. Thomas |
| ISBN | 0394604687 |
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“Abraham Lincoln” is Benjamin Thomas’s 1952 classic and may have been the best single volume biography until Stephen Oates’s “With Malice Toward None” was published in 1977. Thomas’s biography was the first comprehensive...
The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
| Author | Alex Kershaw |
| ISBN | 0306813033 |
By the summer of 1940 World War II had been under way for nearly a year. Hitler was triumphant and planning an invasion of England. But the United States was still a neutral country and, as Winston Churchill later observed, "the British people held the fort alone." A few Americans, however, did not remain...
Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey
| Author | Peter Carlson |
| ISBN | 1610391543 |
Junius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak past Vicksburg on a hay barge. Shuffled from one Rebel prison to another, they escaped and trekked across the snow-covered Appalachians with the help of slaves...
