Last of the Blue and Gray by Serrano, Richard A.

Last of the Blue and Gray (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781588343956)

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Format: Hardcover
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Last of the Blue and Gray by Serrano, Richard A.

Last of the Blue and Gray

$27.95
Last of the Blue and Gray by Serrano, Richard A.

Last of the Blue and Gray

$27.95
Format: Hardcover
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Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and bedridden in his daughter's home in Houston, Texas, no longer could tell of his time as a Confederate forage master. The last of the Blue and the Gray were drifting away; an era was ending.

Unknown to the public, centennial officials, and the White House too, one of these men was indeed a veteran of that horrible conflict and one according to the best evidence nothing but a fraud. One was a soldier. The other had been living a great, big lie.

Author: Richard A. Serrano
ISBN-10: 1588343952
ISBN-13: 9781588343956
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2013
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/24/2013
Library Journal 07/01/2013 pg. 91
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2013
By Richard A. Serrano
By Richard A. Serrano
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RICHARD A. SERRANO, former reporter for the Kansas City Times, is currently a Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Serrano shared in two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the Hyatt sky walks disaster in Kansas City and the King riots in Los Angeles. He is author of One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing.

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