Full name: The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War

Author: Robert Manson Myers Year: 1972 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780300012149 9780300040531 0300012144 0300040539

The remarkable Civil War letters of a Georgia plantation family, now available in a compact, illustrated volume for new readers and for all those who so greatly admired the original monumental edition. The letters vividly recreate a period of American history unparalleled for its drama and poignancy. From reviews of the first edition: No story in America's history has been so often told, or has so well stood the retelling, as that of the Old South and its destruction. But Robert Manson Myers's splendid [book] tells it as it has not been told before, in the fullness of its poignancy and tragedy. -Madison Jones, New York Times Book Review A great and indispensable book. -Jonathan Yardley, New Republic A Gone with the Wind saga...This book is superb. -Clarence E. Olson, St. Louis Post Dispatch The Children of Pride is family reconstruction on a grand scale. It demonstrates how the editing of sources can become, in the hands of an imaginative scholar, the work of creative history. -Citation for the 1973 National Book Award in History. The original version of The Children of Pride was the winner of the 1973 National Book Award in History.It was also named among the best books of 1972 by the American Library Association and by the New York Times Book Review, Saturday Review, Time, Washington Post, and Newsweek. Similar books: This Mighty Scourge by James M. McPherson The Golden Book of the Civil War by Charles Flato 1861 by Adam Goodheart The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton Never Call Retreat by Bruce Catton Glory Road by Bruce Catton April 1865 by Jay Winik The Civil War by Geoffrey C. Ward For Cause and Comrades by James M. McPherson The Civil War by Robert Paul Jordan Drawn with the Sword by James M. McPherson The March to the Sea and Beyond by Joseph T. Glatthaar Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson The Civil War by Shelby Foote The Civil War for Kids by Janis Herbert The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins