Steve Sheinkin is the award-winning author of several fascinating books on American history, including The Notorious Benedict Arnold, which won the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults and the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for nonfiction. His recent book Bomb was a Newbery Honor Book, National Book Award finalist, and winner of the Sibert Award as well as the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. He lives in Saratoga Springs, NY.
"Chatty and accessible, this book does double duty: it introduces
Civil War history for readers who don't know much about it and
supplies browsable commentary for those familiar with the big
picture. Although Sheinkin apologizes for the dull textbooks he
used to write in an author's note, his experiences give him the
authority to tell the history from the inside, and he supports his
material with an extensive array of source notes. His background
also gives him a store of lively, interesting anecdotes, which
appear here. Beginning with a look at the role cotton played in the
history, his fast-paced narrative is broken into short, tersely
titled vignettes ("Brother against brother?" "The bloody road to
Richmond"). There's no in-depth analysis, but that doesn't equate
with simplistic. The horrors of slavery and battlefield slaughter
are clear, as are achievements of Harriet Tubman, Frederick
Douglass, John Brown, and many more..." --Hazel Rochman,
Booklist
Chatty and accessible, this book does double duty: it introduces
Civil War history for readers who don't know much about it and
supplies browsable commentary for those familiar with the big
picture. Although Sheinkin apologizes for the dull textbooks he
used to write in an author's note, his experiences give him the
authority to tell the history from the inside, and he supports his
material with an extensive array of source notes. His background
also gives him a store of lively, interesting anecdotes, which
appear here. Beginning with a look at the role cotton played in the
history, his fast-paced narrative is broken into short, tersely
titled vignettes ("Brother against brother?" "The bloody road to
Richmond"). There's no in-depth analysis, but that doesn't equate
with simplistic. The horrors of slavery and battlefield slaughter
are clear, as are achievements of Harriet Tubman, Frederick
Douglass, John Brown, and many more... Hazel Rochman, Booklist"
Booklist
Chatty and accessible, this book does double duty: it introduces
Civil War history for readers who don't know much about it and
supplies browsable commentary for those familiar with the big
picture. Although Sheinkin apologizes for the dull textbooks he
used to write in an author's note, his experiences give him the
authority to tell the history from the inside, and he supports his
material with an extensive array of source notes. His background
also gives him a store of lively, interesting anecdotes, which
appear here. Beginning with a look at the role cotton played in the
history, his fast-paced narrative is broken into short, tersely
titled vignettes ("Brother against brother?" "The bloody road to
Richmond"). There's no in-depth analysis, but that doesn't equate
with simplistic. The horrors of slavery and battlefield slaughter
are clear, as are achievements of Harriet Tubman, Frederick
Douglass, John Brown, and many more... -- Hazel Rochman
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