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I asked him to reflect on the thirty years that have passed since the publication of his seminal work.

Last November, I was able to sit down with Dr. Indeed, Battle Cry of Freedom is often described as the “best one-volume” account of the Civil War. And yet, the book’s impressive narrative style makes it entirely accessible for the general reader. The book, which earned the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in History, spans over eight hundred pages.

McPherson’s bold 1988 narrative, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, examines the social, political, and economic factors related to antebellum America and the Civil War. Listed on Modern Library's 100 great nonfiction books of the twentieth century.Few individuals have influenced the understanding of an entire historical topic more than Princeton University historian Dr. The standard one-volume history of the Civil War. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war, slavery, and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. The South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. The book's title "Battle Cry of Freedom" refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict.

Signed by the author in each volume on the half-title page as follows, “We are all Americans James McPherson.” In fine condition. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in to each volume. $2,000.00 Item Number: 138912įirst Easton Press edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.