This unique collection of writings by the celebrated author David Madden provides a multitude of reflections on the Civil War and Reconstruction, from nonfiction to fiction.
This unique collection of writings by the celebrated author David Madden provides a multitude of reflections on the Civil War and Reconstruction, from nonfiction to fiction.
David Madden was founding director of the United States Civil War Center from 1992 to 1999 and is now LSU Robert Penn Warren Professor of Creative Writing, Emeritus. He served on the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Advisory Board and was Louisiana Commissioner for the Bicentennial. He has published many books of nonfiction, including four on the Civil War. He has also published eleven novels, including Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War, and three books of short stories, including his latest, The Last Bizarre Tale. His book of stories, The Shadow Knows, won a National Council on the Arts Award, and The Suicide¿s Wife was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a CBS movie. Madden has lectured on the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, fiction, and a wide variety of other subjects, and given dramatic readings of his fiction at more than two hundred colleges and conferences. A native of east Tennessee, he now lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
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Introduction Part I. The Vibration Ripples to the Remotest Perimeter For the New Millennium, New Perspectives on the Civil War and Reconstruction (as of 1997) Fletcher Pratt s Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire On James McPherson s For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War Classics of Civil War Fiction William Faulkner s Absalom, Absalom! Quentin! Listen! Rediscovering a Major Civil War Novel: Joseph Stanley Pennell s History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters The Innocent Stare at the Civil War: Madison Jones s Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light O. Henry s Civil War Surprises The Last American Epic: The Civil War Novels of Father and Son, Michael and Jeff Shaara The Simultaneous Burning of Nine Bridges in East Tennessee The Sinking of the Sultana: A Meditation on Loss and Forgetfulness Part II. Fictional Meditations on the Civil War Willis Carr, Sharp-shooter, at Bleak House, Knoxville Willis Carr Meditates on the Act of Sketching: Hair Trigger Pencil Lines Willis Carr, Sharp-shooter, Meditates on Photographs A Fever of Dying: Henrietta Ramsey Lenoir and General William Price Sanders The Incendiary at the Forks of the River Fragments Found on the Field: Parson Brownlow and Dr. James Gettys Ramsey Lincoln s Second Gettysburg Address
Introduction Part I. The Vibration Ripples to the Remotest Perimeter For the New Millennium, New Perspectives on the Civil War and Reconstruction (as of 1997) Fletcher Pratt s Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire On James McPherson s For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War Classics of Civil War Fiction William Faulkner s Absalom, Absalom! Quentin! Listen! Rediscovering a Major Civil War Novel: Joseph Stanley Pennell s History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters The Innocent Stare at the Civil War: Madison Jones s Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light O. Henry s Civil War Surprises The Last American Epic: The Civil War Novels of Father and Son, Michael and Jeff Shaara The Simultaneous Burning of Nine Bridges in East Tennessee The Sinking of the Sultana: A Meditation on Loss and Forgetfulness Part II. Fictional Meditations on the Civil War Willis Carr, Sharp-shooter, at Bleak House, Knoxville Willis Carr Meditates on the Act of Sketching: Hair Trigger Pencil Lines Willis Carr, Sharp-shooter, Meditates on Photographs A Fever of Dying: Henrietta Ramsey Lenoir and General William Price Sanders The Incendiary at the Forks of the River Fragments Found on the Field: Parson Brownlow and Dr. James Gettys Ramsey Lincoln s Second Gettysburg Address
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