Patriotic Gore
- ISBN-10
- 1466899638
- ISBN-13
- 9781466899636
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 816
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-11-12
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Author
- Edmund Wilson
Description
Featuring critical and biographical portraits of notable figures of the American Civil War, Patriotic Gore remains one of Edmund Wilson's greatest achievements. Considered one of the 100 Best Nonfiction books by The Modern Library. Figures discussed include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, among many others.
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Other editions
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- 1994
- 852 pages
- Paperback
- W. W. Norton & Company
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- 1962
- 816 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press
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