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After the War : the Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped.
"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the Civil War and its principal players in the years after the conflict. The value of military glory and tiesto greatness would turn toward the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the Civil War and its principal players in the years after the conflict. The value of military glory and tiesto greatness would turn toward the tragic even among the victors-like earthquake survivors stumbling into another world, simply trying to make a new life. Their struggle would be a constant tug back toward a destroyed past, and a confrontation with the reality of being strangers in their own land. David Hardin's stories of eleven such figure. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (509 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-332) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781615780242 1615780246 |