Civil War America

<p><strong>(Johnson) is a master of narrative history. --<em>Los Angeles Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p>In these masterful essays drawn from his <em>New York Times </em>bestsellers <em>A History of the American People and Heroes</em> one of the world's most renowned and respected historians explores what is arguably the most important chapter in the annals of America: the Civil War. </p><p>Enlivened with the author's trademark scholarship verve and intelligence this vivid concise history revisits the conflict that tore a nation asunder and provides portraits of the people who played essential roles in the bloody drama. Johnson's <em>Civil War America </em>examines the factors that led to the devastating rift in the years before the fighting--and recounts the troubled healing a wounded nation underwent in the years after the final shot was fired.</p>