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Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
ISBN
9780809087440

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0809087448
ISBN-13
9780809087440
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52338629

Product Key Features

Book Title
Soldier's Pen : Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Military / United States, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Robert E. Bonner
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-004509
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
Praise for Robert Bonner'sColors and Blood: "Thought-provoking." --Richard Sauers,Civil War News "Bonner's outstanding research and analysis provide hope for those who still feel that first-rate scholarship might inform, contextualize, and transcend contemporary historically charged and emotionally passionate polemics. An outstanding work." --Choice "This is a fantastic accomplishment." --Paul Christopher Anderson,American Nineteenth Century History, "For anyone interested in viewing America's traumatic Civil War from the perspective of ordinary individuals who found themselves in the Union and Confederate armies, Robert E. Bonner'sThe Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil Warwill be a very rewarding experience. This expertly edited collection of letters and drawings mailed to the families and friends of sixteen 'typical' but quite diverse citizensoldiers conveys a deeply human dimension to America's most dehumanizing war." -David Brion Davis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author ofInhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World   "Walt Whitman once said of the Civil War that 'The real war will never get in the books.' But the real war does get into this book, in the form of letters and diaries written by sixteen enlisted men, Union and Confederate, who tell it like it was." -James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofBattle Cry of Freedom   "Robert E. Bonner has not only found some of the most riveting, impassioned, humorous, and powerful Civil War letters and journals ever written, he has brilliantly woven them together so that the overall collection reads like a first-rate work of literature.The Soldier's Penis a masterpiece of scholarship and, without question, one of the most extraordinary anthologies of Civil War correspondence I have ever read." -Andrew Carroll, editor of The New York Times bestsellingWAR LETTERS   Praise for Robert Bonner'sColors and Blood: "Thought-provoking." --Richard Sauers,Civil War News "Bonner's outstanding research and analysis provide hope for those who still feel that first-rate scholarship might inform, contextualize, and transcend contemporary historically charged and emotionally passionate polemics. An outstanding work." --Choice "This is a fantastic accomplishment." --Paul Christopher Anderson,American Nineteenth Century History
Dewey Decimal
973.7/40922 B
Synopsis
They are all infantrymen; none were commissioned officers. One is a German-speaking artist whose sole record is nineteen stunning watercolors that cover a year's enlistment. Another is a free black from Syracuse, New York. Six are from slave states, one of whom was a Unionist. Drawing from the more than 10,000 documents housed in the privately held Gilder Lehrman Collection, Robert E. Bonner has movingly reconstructed the experiences of sixteen Civil War soldiers, using their own accounts to knit together a ground-level view of the entire conflict. The immediacy of diaries and the intimacy of letters to loved ones accompany the humor of an anonymous cartoonist from Massachusetts, the vivid paintings of Private Henry Berckhoff. All reproduced for the first time in The Soldier's Pen, the documents and images that Bonner weaves together, providing context and explanation as required, powerfully re-create the day-to-day lives of the soldiers who fought and died for Union and Confederacy. Not since the 2000 publication of Robert Sneden's paintings and papers in Eye of the Storm has a collection of original Civil War documents so evocatively captured the war., Drawing from the more than 10,000 documents housed in the privately held Gilder Lehrman Collection, Bonner has movingly reconstructed the experiences of 16 Civil War soldiers, using their own accounts to knit together a ground-level view of the entire conflict., They are all infantrymen; none were commissioned officers. One is a German-speaking artist whose sole record is nineteen stunning watercolors that cover a year's enlistment. Another is a free black from Syracuse, New York. Six are from slave states, one of whom was a Unionist. Drawing from the more than 60,000 documents housed in the privately held Gilder Lehrman Collection, Robert E. Bonner has movingly reconstructed the experiences of sixteen Civil War soldiers, using their own accounts to knit together a ground-level view of the entire conflict. The immediacy of diaries and the intimacy of letters to loved ones accompany the humor of an anonymous cartoonist from Massachusetts, the vivid paintings of Private Henry Berckhoff. All reproduced for the first time in "The Soldier's Pen," the documents and images that Bonner weaves together, providing context and explanation as required, powerfully re-create the day-to-day lives of the soldiers who fought and died for Union and Confederacy. Not since the 2000 publication of Robert Sneden's paintings and papers in "Eye of the Storm "has a collection of original Civil War documents so evocatively captured the war.
LC Classification Number
E467.B66 2006

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