Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction.
MCPHERSON, James M.
Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction.
First Edition of James M. McPherson's Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction; Inscribed by Him
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
$750.00
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Item Number: 149848
First edition of this classic work, now in its fourth edition. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 71 photographs and 37 maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “For Chris Ripple Regards from James McPherson.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James M. Wall.
Ordeal by Fire blends the most up-to-date scholarship with interpretations based on decades of teaching, research, and writing, to tell an important story--that of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event in American history.
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