Stonewall Jackson

Stonewall Jackson
Author: John Bowers
Publisher: Avon Books
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1990-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780380711642

Applying a novelist's shaping hand to history, Bowers gives a dramatic closeup of one of the most important generals of the South--his childhood as a poor orphan shuttled among strict relatives, his two marriages, and the driving ambition he fought to control throughout his life.

Portrait of America

Portrait of America
Author: Jerrold Hirsch
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807854891

How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word "American"? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring and seemingly permanent questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history-and questions that were ad