The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America

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Product Details
Price
$35.00  $32.55
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
Pages
640
Dimensions
6.4 X 1.7 X 9.3 inches | 2.24 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780393292633

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About the Author
Edward L. Ayers, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, has won the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes for his innovative histories of Civil War America. He is president emeritus of the University of Richmond, where he is executive director of New American History.
Reviews
Luminous...an exemplary contribution to the history of the Civil War and its aftermath.
A superb, readable work of history.
[An] elegant book. With great skill, Edward Ayers weaves the stories of these Virginia and Pennsylvania counties together with events in the rest of the nation into a seamless whole that offers important new insights.--James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
A stellar feat of historical scholarship and storytelling. Ayers offers a masterful, engaging narrative that makes the second half of the war and its immediate aftermath seem vividly fresh.--David S. Reynolds, author of John Brown, Abolitionist
Edward Ayers masters a unique combination of detailed, granular, profoundly human social history with an extraordinary skill at narrative and a rare humility. This is the brilliant, long-awaited exclamation mark for the Valley of the Shadow.--David W. Blight, author of a forthcoming biography of Frederick Douglass