Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in History "A feast for Civil War buffs. . . . One of the best firsthand records of the Confederate experience. . . . Electrifying."-Walter Clemons, Newsweek "A great epic drama of our greatest national tragedy."-William Styron, New York Review of Books The 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 ...
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Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in History "A feast for Civil War buffs. . . . One of the best firsthand records of the Confederate experience. . . . Electrifying."-Walter Clemons, Newsweek "A great epic drama of our greatest national tragedy."-William Styron, New York Review of Books The 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 South's headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regime's 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 Chesnut's Civil War presents a full and reliable edition of Chesnut's journals, restoring her to her rightful place in American history and literature.
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Good. Book vii-iviii, 886pp, some shelf wear, white pictorial covers with title to spine. Some small marks and small creases to covers. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Softcover edition. 8vo (23cm by 15cm), lviii, 886pp. Original laminated card wrappers. Please note that the leading edge of the text block is dusty. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy. ISBN 0300029799.
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UsedGood. Paperback; light fading, shelf wear to exterior; soiling to page edges; bum p to bottom end of spine; in good condition with clean text and tight bindi ng.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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