Ordeal by Fire is a comprehensive one-volume account of the United States during the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Written by one of this country's leading Civil War historians and a Pulitzer Prize winner, the text is divided into three distinct sections: Part I describes the social, economic, ideological, and political conflicts that lead to war; Part II covers all aspects of the war itself; and Part III deals with the post-war problems of reuniting the nation and defining the rights of the freed slaves in the new South.
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About the Author:
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History at Princeton University where he has taught since 1962. He received his BA from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1958 and his PhD from The Johns Hopkins University in 1963. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a Scaver Institute Fellow at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California. In 1999, McPherson received the Public Humanities Award of the New Jersey Council of the Humanities. A leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author, McPherson has written many books including most recently, What They Fought For, 1861-1865 (1994), Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War (1996), For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997), and Is Blood Thicker Than Water? Crises of Modern Nationalism (1998).
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- PublisherMcGraw-Hill College
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0070458421
- ISBN 13 9780070458420
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages713
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