Bruce Chadwick, Author . Knopf $27.50 (384p) ISBN 978-0-375-40918-9
From the first of the silent movies, Chadwick (The Two American Presidents) asserts, the Civil War has been presented as a national tragedy, redeemed only by the gallantry of the combatants. Its origins have been obscured, with the slavery question...
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Bruce Chadwick, Author . Sourcebooks $24.95 (406p) ISBN 978-1-4022-0695-5
When Martha Custis married George Washington in 1759, according to Chadwick, she was a fat and amiable widow seeking a loving companion, a father for her children and a manager for her sizable plantations. Their union also met the needs of the...
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Bruce Chadwick, Author . Sourcebooks $24.95 (355p) ISBN 978-1-4022-0941-3
Former journalist Chadwick (The General and Mrs. Washington
) deals with much more than the previously underappreciated year of 1858 in this engagingly written book. By focusing on the men who drove crucial historical events, Chadwick provides...
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Bruce Chadwick, Author . Wiley $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-470-18551-3
This historical whodunit relates the tale of the 1806 murder of one of the early nation's most celebrated jurists and public figures. Virginia's George Wythe was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution. He was...
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Bruce Chadwick, Author Abbeville Press $24.95 (191p) ISBN 978-1-55859-372-5
A connoisseur of diamond memorabilia, New York Daily News sportswriter Chadwick here does for black baseball what he has done for major league baseball in general: encourage its enthusiasts to appreciate its nuances. Because the so-called Negro...
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Bruce Chadwick, Author Sourcebooks $26.95 (512p) ISBN 978-1-4022-0222-3
Instead of offering a chronicle of maneuver and combat, this illuminating if deferential biography examines Washington's far more trying difficulties off the battlefield. Historian Chadwick (The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film) focuses...
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Bruce Chadwick, Author Sourcebooks $24.95 (399p) ISBN 978-1-4022-0506-4
In this novelistic treatment of the Revolutionary War, Chadwick (George Washington's War, Brother Against Brother) uses the experiences of eight men to give the reader a ""bottom up"" look at the war. Drawing on their letters and diaries, he follows
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Bruce Chadwick. Prometheus Books, $24.95 (450p) ISBN 978-1-61614-835-5
Drawing extensively on newly available letters, historian Chadwick (Lincoln for President) sketches a colorful portrait of an often neglected presidential couple. Ostensibly a dual biography, Chadwick’s clear focus is Dolley, who, in the eyes of her
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Bruce Chadwick, Author, David M. Spindel, Photographer Abbeville Press $24.95 (132p) ISBN 978-1-55859-242-1
The history of the Boston Red Sox baseball team is filled with examples of the noble competitor. The team can boast of the greatest hitter in the game, Ted Williams, while also wallowing in a tradition of futile competition: 1993 will mark the 75th...
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Bruce Chadwick, Author, David M. Spindel, Photographer, David M. Spindell, With Abbeville Press $24.95 (140p) ISBN 978-1-55859-243-8
This appealing retrospective offers a short, superficial text by New York University journalism professor Chadwick ( How to Buy, Sell, and Invest in Baseball Cards and Sports Memorabilia ) and pictures taken or selected by commercial photographer...
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Bruce Chadwick. Pegasus, $29.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-63936-339-1
In this ingeniously constructed account, historian Chadwick (Law & Disorder) stitches together speeches, letters, diary entries, Cabinet meeting records, and more to recreate the Fort Sumter crisis as it unfolded. Though construction of the fort—loca
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