Book: Paperback: Mass Market | 6.49 x 4.29in | 336 pages | ISBN 9780451530585 | 03 Jul 2007 | Signet Classic | 18 - AND UP
Here are Masters's dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional Midwestern town called Spoon River. The dead, "sleeping on the hill" in their village cemetery, awaken to tell the truth about their lives, toppling the myth of the moral superiority of small-town life.
Bestselling historian of the Civil War illuminates how Lincoln worked with—and often against—his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and create the role of commander in chief as we know it.
