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Description: 1861: The Civil War Awakening (Vintage Civil War Library) by Goodheart, Adam TheFREE US DELIVERY Quality BooksReviewsA New York Times Notable Book Praise for Adam Goodheart's 1861 "Exhilarating. . . . Inspiring. . . . Irresistible. . . . 1861 creates the uncanny illusion that the reader has stepped into a time machine." - The New York Times Book Review "A huge contribution. . . . Hardly a page of this book lacks an insight of importance or a fact that beguiles the reader." - The Boston Globe "Adam Goodheart is a Monet with a pen instead of a paintbrush." -James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom "Goodheart writes with precision, beauty and understanding. The books will renew one's excitement about reading history." - The Albuquerque Journal "Rich, multitiered history." - The New York Review of Books "Goodheart shows us that even at 150 years' distance there are new voices, and new stories, to be heard about the Civil War, and that together they can have real meaning. . . . He takes what is known, breaks it down to its elemental parts and rearranges it, giving us a different view entirely of something we thought we understood entirely." - The Boston Globe " 1861 is the best book I have ever read on the start of the Civil War. . . . Penetrating, eloquent, and deeply moving, this is a classic introduction to the nation's greatest conflict." -Tony Horwitz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Confederates in the Attic "Eloquent. . . . Gripping. . . . Goodheart gives readers a sense of what it was like to have been there." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Marvelous. . . . Goodheart brings us into the world of mid-nineteenth-century America, as ambiguous and ambitious and fractured as the times we live in now, and he brings to pulsing life the hearts and minds of its American citizens." - The Huffington Post "Exceptional historical reporting. . . . Enlightening, insightful, and yes, entertaining." - The Tucson Citizen "Doing what David McCullough's 1776 did for the American Revolution, Goodheart's book delivers a remarkably original and gripping account of the year the Civil War began." -History Book Club "Goodheart is an elegant writer and this is a highly readable introduction to America's great civil conflict." - The Seattle Times "A compelling look at the country's dawning realization that this would be much more than a quickly resolved conflict over slavery, through the experiences of a fascinating cast of characters given short shrift (if any shrift at all) in previous Civil War books." - The Star-Ledger "Goodheart's book stands out . . . for the author's deft narrative style and vivid description. . . . [He] conjures a remarkable cast of individual Americans-from slaves and foot soldiers to the occupant of the Oval Office-using their stories to evoke a national watershed." - The Times-Picayune "An impressive accomplishment, a delightful read, and a valuable contribution that will entertain and challenge popular and professional audiences alike." - Harvard Magazine "With boundless verve, Adam Goodheart has sketched an uncommonly rich tableau of America on the cusp of the Civil War. The research is impeccable, the cast of little-known characters we are introduced to is thoroughly fascinating, the book is utterly thought-provoking, and the story is luminescent. What a triumph." -Jay Winik, author of April 1865 and The Great Upheaval, Praise for Adam Goodheart's 1861 "Exhilarating.... At once more panoramic and more intimate than most standard accounts, and more inspiring.... Goodheart turns the lens away from the usual stars of the story [and] explores the more obscure corners of antebellum America, introducing fascinating figures who loomed large at the time but have now been mostly forgotten.... [With] a journalist's eye for telling detail with the rigorous research of a good historian...Goodheart gives his far-flung journey narrative tension and suspense.... 1861 creates the uncanny illusion that the reader has stepped into a time machine.... Irresistible." -Debby Applegate, New York Times Book Review (cover) "It's as if Picasso and Braque put together an account of the War Between the States. Goodheart is, for want of a better term, a cubist; he takes what is known, breaks it down to its elemental parts and rearranges it, giving us a different view entirely of something we thought we understood entirely.... Hardly a page of this book lacks an insight of importance or a fact that beguiles the reader.... Goodheart shows us that even at 150 years' distance there are new voices, and new stories, to be heard about the Civil War, and that together they can have real meaning.... Goodheart's new history makes a huge contribution to changing how that past looked and, by doing so, explaining it." -David M. Shribman, Boston Globe (cover of the book review) " 1861 is the best book I have ever read on the start of the Civil War. Sumter, secession, and Lincoln appear in a wonderfully fresh and illuminating light, supported by a cast of extraordinary players that few Americans know about. Penetrating, eloquent, and deeply moving, this is a classic introduction to the nation's greatest conflict." -Tony Horwitz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Confederates in the Attic "Combining a master historian's sure command of original sources and a novelist's deft touch with character and narrative, Adam Goodheart has produced the young century's liveliest book about how a generation of remarkable and ordinary Americans alike variously provoked, resisted, and endured the dissolution of their country and the tragic march toward civil war. Major and minor characters, political movements, and whole towns and villages come alive under Goodheart's expert scrutiny. The result is that rarest of history books: a work of remarkable original scholarship crafted into an irresistible read." -Harold Holzer, chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and author of Lincoln President-Elect "Adam Goodheart brings to this book a rare combination of talent: passion and precision as a historian, grace and generosity as a writer. 1861 puts us in the young nation that was about to shed its skin and begin life as something new." -Richard Ben Cramer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize "No one could capture Whitman's 'hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year' more vividly than Adam Goodheart has done in this magnificent book. 1861 isn't merely a work of history; it's a time-travel device that makes a century and a half fall away and sets us down, eyes and ears wide open, right in the midst of the chaos and the glory." -Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award "With boundless verve, Adam Goodheart has sketched an uncommonly rich tableau of America on the cusp of the Civil War. The research is impeccable, the cast of little-known characters we are introduced to is thoroughly fascinating, the book is utterly thought-provoking, and the story is luminescent. What a triumph." -Jay Winik, author of New York Times best-sellers April 1865 and The Great Upheaval "Adam Goodheart is a Monet with a pen instead of a paintbrush. Like an impressionist painting, 1861 reveals layers of meaning and beauty as one studies it closely., Praise for Adam Goodheartâs 1861 âExhilarating.... At once more panoramic and more intimate than most standard accounts, and more inspiring.... Goodheart turns the lens away from the usual stars of the story [and] explores the more obscure corners of antebellum America, introducing fascinating figures who loomed large at the time but have now been mostly forgotten.... [With] a journalistâs eye for telling detail with the rigorous research of a good historian...Goodheart gives his far-flung journey narrative tension and suspense.... 1861 creates the uncanny illusion that the reader has stepped into a time machine.... Irresistible.â -Debby Applegate, New York Times Book Review (cover) âItâs as if Picasso and Braque put together an account of the War Between the States. Goodheart is, for want of a better term, a cubist; he takes what is known, breaks it down to its elemental parts and rearranges it, giving us a different view entirely of something we thought we understood entirely.... Hardly a page of this book lacks an insight of importance or a fact that beguiles the reader.... Goodheart shows us that even at 150 yearsâ distance there are new voices, and new stories, to be heard about the Civil War, and that together they can have real meaning.... Goodheartâs new history makes a huge contribution to changing how that past looked and, by doing so, explaining it.â -David M. Shribman, Boston Globe (cover of the book review) â 1861 is the best book I have ever read on the start of the Civil War. Sumter, secession, and Lincoln appear in a wonderfully fresh and illuminating light, supported by a cast of extraordinary players that few Americans know about. Penetrating, eloquent, and deeply moving, this is a classic introduction to the nationâs greatest conflict.â -Tony Horwitz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Confederates in the Attic âCombining a master historianâs sure command of original sources and a novelistâs deft touch with character and narrative, Adam Goodheart has produced the young centuryâs liveliest book about how a generation of remarkable and ordinary Americans alike variously provoked, resisted, and endured the dissolution of their country and the tragic march toward civil war. Major and minor characters, political movements, and whole towns and villages come alive under Goodheartâs expert scrutiny. The result is that rarest of history books: a work of remarkable original scholarship crafted into an irresistible read.â -Harold Holzer, chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and author of Lincoln President-Elect âAdam Goodheart brings to this book a rare combination of talent: passion and precision as a historian, grace and generosity as a writer. 1861 puts us in the young nation that was about to shed its skin and begin life as something new.â -Richard Ben Cramer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize âNo one could capture Whitmanâs âhurrying, crashing, sad, distracted yearâ more vividly than Adam Goodheart has done in this magnificent book. 1861 isnât merely a work of history; itâs a time-travel device that makes a century and a half fall away and sets us down, eyes and ears wide open, right in the midst of the chaos and the glory.â -Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award âWith boundless verve, Adam Goodheart has sketched an uncommonly rich tableau of America on the cusp of the Civil War. The research is impeccable, the cast of little-known characters we are introduced to is thoroughly fascinating, the book is utterly thought-provoking, and the story is luminescent. What a triumph.â -Jay Winik, author of New York Times best-sellers April 1865 and The Great Upheaval âAdam Goodheart is a Monet with a pen instead of a paintbrush. Like an impressionist painting, 1861 reveals layers of mean

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