Chapter 1: A Nation Announcing Itself
Chapter 2: The Disillusion of Compromise
Chapter 3: From Debate to Civil War
Chapter 4: To War Upon Slavery: The East and Emancipation,
1861-1862
Chapter 5: Elusive Victories: East and West, 1862-1863
Chapter 6: The Soldier's Tale
Chapter 7: The Manufacture of War
Chapter 8: Year That Trembled: East and West, 1863
Chapter 9: World Turned Upside Down
Chapter 10: Stalemate and Triumph
Chapter 11: A Dim Shore Ahead
Epilogue
Index
Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War
Era, and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College.
He is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America,
both of which won the Lincoln Prize. His most recent books on
Lincoln and the Civil War era are Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates
That Defined America and Lincoln:
A Very Short Introduction.
"Guelzo has a masterful command of the intricate narrative of the
Civil War period. His tale contains familiar stories, but also new
insights." --Journal of American History
"Guelzo's book is a shining example of the virtues of the macro
approach when it is undertaken with energy and efficiency. By
panning out and reviewing the events that occurred over several
decades, Guelzo offers a useful synthesis of the developing Civil
War narrative..." --The New York Times
"It's hard to imagine a better one-volume history of the American
Civil War than Gettysburg College professor Allen C. Guelzo's new
work." --The Washington Times
"Guelzo's prose is graceful and erudite - indeed, almost poetic.
His is as comfortable with military topics as he is with the
political, social, and economic aspects of the war and its
aftermath." --The Weekly Standard
"Allen C. Guelzo's new book should occupy the same position in the
current Civil War sesquicentennial as Bruce Catton's books did 50
years ago during the war's centennial. Fateful Lightning: A New
History of the Civil War & Reconstruction deserves this prominence
for Guelzo's thorough knowledge of the subject, his ability to draw
fresh conclusion, and his exceptional writing skills." --The
Saturday Evening Post
"This is an outstanding effort to recount and explain our greatest
national trauma to general readers." --Booklist
"With his accustomed eloquence and erudition, Allen C. Guelzo has
produced a grand and sweeping account of the Civil War, vividly
depicting its events, its characters, and, most of all, the ideas
that drove them. Fateful Lightning is destined to take its place
alongside the classic narratives of the nation's greatest crisis."
--Steven E. Woodworth, author of This Great Struggle: America's
Civil War
"[A] splendidly-written narrative" --Civil War Book Review
"Fateful Lightning is a splendid accomplishment." --David Frum,
Daily Beast
"Fateful Lightning is a wonderful book. It is the summit of a long
career of a consumate historian. ... [A] timely addition to a long
tradition of scholarly histories of both the Civil War and
Reconstruction. ... Guelzo seamlessly weaves the history of actual
warfare with other cultural and historical events of the time. ...
Because it is so well-written and produces such an engrossing
story, it is one that students and scholars alike will relish."
--International Social Science Review
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