25 Years of Battle Cry of Freedom: An Interview with James M. McPherson

The Civil War

Twenty-five years after he published one of the bestselling histories of the Civil War, James McPherson talks to Marc Wortman about the war.

Published Jun. 18 2013 9:00AM EDT

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Battle Cry of Freedom, James M. McPherson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning history of the Civil War, may be the finest one-volume history of any American war ever written, let alone the Civil War.

Marc Wortman

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25 Years of Battle Cry of Freedom: An Interview with James M. McPherson

Twenty-five years after he published one of the bestselling histories of the Civil War, James McPherson talks to Marc Wortman about the war.

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Marc Wortman