Bruce Catton was born in Petoskey, Michigan, in 1899. A United States journalist and writer, Catton was one of America's most popular Civil War historians. He worked as a newspaperman in Boston, Cleveland, and Washington, and also held a position at the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1948. Catton's best-selling book, A Stillness at Appomattox, earned him a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1954. Before his death in 1978, Catton wrote a total of ten books detailing the Civil War.
Praise for Bruce Catton and Gettysburg: The Final Fury:
“Military history . . . at its best.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Nothing in our time makes the Civil War as alive as the writings
of Bruce Catton.”
—The Baltimore Sun
“No one around can write of the ‘terrible beauty of an army’ the
way Bruce Catton can.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“A rare combination of talent as a writer and historian.”
—The Kansas City Star
“No one ever wrote American history with more easy grace, beauty
and emotional power, or greater understanding of its meaning, than
Bruce Catton. There is a near-magic power of imagination in
Catton’s work that seemed to project him physically into the
battlefields, along the dusty roads and to the campfires of another
age.”
—Oliver Jensen, former editor of American Heritage
“[Catton combines] a scholar’s appreciation of the Grand Design
with a newsman’s keenness for meaningful vignette. . . . Catton
created an ‘enlisted man’s-eye view’ of the war that treated
humanely the errors on both sides.”
—Newsweek
“All [of Catton’s Civil War books] are remarkably good books,
distinguised by a vivid, fast-moving style.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“One of the most skillful old pros that the craft [of historical
narrative] has ever known.”
—Saturday Review of Books
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