Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Chesnut, Mary

ISBN: 0300029799

Author: Chesnut, Mary

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Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryA feast for Civil War buffs. . . . One of the best firsthand records of the Confederate experience. . . . Electrifying.-Walter Clemons, NewsweekA great epic drama of our greatest national tragedy.-William Styron, New York Review of BooksThe incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck always to stumble in on the real show. Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the Souths headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regimes death throes, its moment of high drama in world history. With intelligence and passion she described the turbulent events of politics and war, as well as the complex society around her. In her own circles, the aristocratic, patriarchal, slave-holding Mary Chesnut was a figure of heresy and of paradox: she had a horror of slavery and called herself an abolitionist from early youth.Edited by the eminent historian C. Vann Woodward, Mary Chesnuts Civil War presents a full and reliable edition of Chesnuts journals, restoring her to her rightful place in American history and literature.

• Author: Chesnut, Mary. | Publisher: Yale University Press | Pages: 886 | Publication Date: 1981 | Edition: First Edition | Binding: Paperback | MSRP: 18.2 | ISBN13: 9780300029796 | ISBN: 0300029799 | Language: en | Store Location: History | "Book cover image may be different than what appears on the actual book."