GDG- Shelby Foote's sources

[Carl Chatto]

You beat me to it! I was going to make exactly the same point.

I also agree about Sears.

-Carl

Margaret D. Blough wrote:
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> There is also McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom" which is very readable and impeccably scholarly.  McPherson has never seen scholarship and readability as being inconsistent in any way.
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> Regards,
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> Margaret
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> From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com> 
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>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
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>> <> incredibly dry. Let's allow for the poetic.>> 
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>> And fortunately not all Civil War historians are cut from the same writing 
>> cloth. Case in point is Stephen Sears whose style makes for easy and 
>> enjoyable reading. His background as a journalist no doubt accounts for 
>> that. 
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>> Tom Ryan 
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