The Blue and the Gray

The Blue and the Gray
Author: Henry Steele Commager
Publisher: Signet Book
Total Pages: 642
Release: 1973-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780451627780

This is the Civil War as it was viewed by both sides and all levels. This is the Civil War as it was fought in the North and the South, the East and the West, on the sea and behind the lines. This is the one history that must be read to experience the understand the American past and the American present, in the greatest struggle that so importantly influenced both.

Life Goes on

Life Goes on
Author: James R. Arnold
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2001-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822523154

Looks at life on the home front during the Civil War, examining the experiences of men and women from the North and South who kept farms, factories, hospitals, homes, and other institutions running during the conflict.

Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford

Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford
Author: Richard Londraville
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2001-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780815607304

Jeanne Foster challenged the accepted role for women at the turn of the twentieth century. Born on a hardscrabble farm in the Adirondack Mountains in 1879, she was hailed as an important voice in American poetry by 1916 when her first books of verse, Neighbors of Yesterday and Wild Apples were published. She had early success as a model—she was the Harrison Fisher girl of 1903—and later became a journalist for the American Review of Reviews. In 1918, she met John Quinn, patron of the arts, which placed her in the middle of some of the most important literary and artistic movements in the twentieth century. She counted among her friends John Butler and William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Pablo Picasso, and Constantin Brancusi. This book reveals her dark affair with Aleister Crowley and her great friendship with Tomas Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. Today, Jeanne Foster lies buried in Chestertown, New York, next to her old friend John Butler Yeats.

Selected Poems: Expanded Edition

Selected Poems: Expanded Edition
Author: Robert Lowell
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2006
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374530068

." . .Over 200 works, culled from each of Lowell's books of verse. . . are a perfectly chosen representation of 'the greatest American poet of the mid-century.'"--Richard Poirier, "Book Week."