The Crater
7 best books like The Crater (Richard Slotkin): The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, Reveille in Washington, 1860-65, Pickett's Charge, Soul Catcher
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
| Author | Edmund Morris |
| ISBN | 0375756787 |
'Colonel Roosevelt,' which takes its title from Roosevelt's favourite way of being addressed during his emeritus years, follows the African Journey with Mr. Morris's characteristic care. He uses primary sources, sometimes even rough drafts of letters and documents, and goes well beyond Roosevelt's...
| Author | David M. Potter |
| ISBN | 0061319295 |
“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History
“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —Newsweek
Now in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David...
| Author | Don E. Fehrenbacher |
| ISBN | 0195145887 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Dred Scott Case is a masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure--the case referred to as "the most frequently overturned decision in history." On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court's decision against...
| Author | Leon F. Litwack |
| ISBN | 0394743989 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil...
Reveille in Washington, 1860-65
| Author | Margaret Leech |
| ISBN | 1931313237 |
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,...
| Author | George R. Stewart |
| ISBN | 0395597722 |
A Classic Study Of Pickett's Charge
Both as symbol and as history, Pickett's charge, the climactic Southern attack on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, exerts a powerful hold on the American imagination. Although other more recent works may show more ability to assess and choose among...
| Author | Michael C. White |
| ISBN | 0061340723 |
Augustus Cain is a damaged man haunted by a terrible skill: the ability to track people who don't want to be found. Rosetta is a runaway slave who bears the scars, inside and out, of a life of servitude to a cruel and unforgiving master. Her flight is fueled by a passion and determination only a mother could...
