{"product_id":"mary-chesnuts-civil-war-mary-chesnut-9780300029796","title":"Mary Chesnut's Civil War","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in History \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A feast for Civil War buffs. . . . One of the best firsthand records of the Confederate experience. . . . Electrifying.\"--Walter Clemons, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A great epic drama of our greatest national tragedy.\"--William Styron, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck \"always to stumble in on the real show.\" Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South's headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regime's death throes, its moment of high drama in world history. With intelligence and passion she described the turbulent events of politics and war, as well as the complex society around her. In her own circles, the aristocratic, patriarchal, slave-holding Mary Chesnut was a figure of heresy and of paradox: she had a horror of slavery and called herself an abolitionist from early youth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Edited by the eminent historian C. Vann Woodward, \u003ci\u003eMary Chesnut's Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e presents a full and reliable edition of Chesnut's journals, restoring her to her rightful place in American history and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Chesnut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300029799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300029796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 6.08w x 1.65d","brand":"Mary Chesnut","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995509195007,"sku":"9780300029796","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed046a5b-da51-466c-8e69-9656b2d99229.jpg?v=1683336221","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mary-chesnuts-civil-war-mary-chesnut-9780300029796","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}