I have discovered, very late in quarantine, that the audiobook of Battle Cry of Freedom is the perfect thing to listen to when falling asleep and like to spend this part of the evening thinking “will I listen to ‘The River War of 1862’ or ‘Fire in the Rear?’”
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I do too! The opening 1/3 is so good but once the fighting starts it becomes a different book and I miss the depth of political/social history
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That's something I really noticed on a recent re-read. It mirrors in someways McPherson's shift as a historian (starting as part of the social history wave & becoming interested in military history). But the first 3rd is best because most balanced.
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