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A Worse Place Than Hell
- How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
Engelsk Paperback
A Worse Place Than Hell
- How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
Engelsk Paperback

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December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American.Guided by patriotism, driven by desire, all five moved toward singular destinies. A young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty. The one-eyed army chaplain Arthur Fuller pitted his frail body against the evils of slavery. Walt Whitman, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by the guardians of propriety, and Louisa May Alcott, a struggling writer seeking an authentic voice and her father’s admiration, tended soldiers’ wracked bodies as nurses. On the other side of the national schism, John Pelham, a West Point cadet from Alabama, achieved a unique excellence in artillery tactics as he served a doomed and misbegotten cause.A Worse Place Than Hell
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
544
ISBN-13:
9780393882421
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
039388242X
Udg. Dato:
6 feb 2024
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
209mm
Højde:
139mm
Forlag:
WW Norton & Co
Oplagsdato:
6 feb 2024
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