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| Author: Robert Penn Warren | Introduction: Howard Jones |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
ISBN-10: 0803298013
ISBN-13: 9780803298019
Buy.com Sku: 30331846
Publish Date: 4/1/1998
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(in Inches) 8.25H x 5.5L x 0.25T
Pages:
109
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| In this book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets "grows in our consciousness", arousing complex emotions and leaving a "gallery of great human images for our contemplation". |
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In this book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets "grows in our consciousness", arousing complex emotions and leaving a "gallery of great human images for our contemplation". In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets “grows in our consciousness,” arousing complex emotions and leaving “a gallery of great human images for our contemplation.” In this book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets "grows in our consciousness," arousing complex emotions and leaving a "gallery of great human images for our contemplation." |
Author Bio
Robert Penn Warren
Growing up in Kentucky, Robert Penn Warren spent much of his time at his grandfather's tobacco farm, where he listened to Civil War stories--his grandfather was a Confederate veteran--which fascinated him all his life and which he wove into his fiction and poetry. His first novel, "Night Rider" (1939), was about tobacco farmers in Kentucky and the giant tobacco companies that sought to exploit them. Warren attended Vanderbilt, where he began to write poetry and became a member of the Fugitives, a group of poets that included John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate. He received an M.A. from Berkeley and also studied at Yale and Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar). While he was teaching at LSU., he became interested in the legendary Louisiana politician Huey Long, who became the fictionalized protagonist of "All the King's Men" (1946), Warren's most acclaimed novel, which was also made into a compelling film. Most of Warren's fame, however, rests on his reputation as a literary critic; his classic collaborations with his LSU colleague Cleanth Brooks, including "Understanding Poetry" and "Understanding Fiction", influenced many generations of students and readers. He and Brooks were the stalwarts of what came to be known as the New Criticism. Warren won the Pulitzer Prize three times, once for "All the King's Men" and twice for his poetry.
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