Andrew Ward, Author . Viking $29.95 (531p) ISBN 978-0-670-03440-6
This massive narrative painstakingly recounts the notorious—and much-disputed—massacre of the Union garrison at Fort Pillow, Tenn., by Nathan Bedford Forrest's Confederate cavalry on April 12, 1864. The outnumbered garrison,...
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Andrew Ward, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-18771-2
In the fall of 1871, while the country was reeling from the effects of the Civil War, a choir of former slaves and freedmen took to the road to raise money for their school, Fisk University, which was near financial collapse. Under the direction of...
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Andrew Ward, Author, Richard Allen, Narrated by , read by Richard Allen. Tantor Audio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0614-1
In Ward’s groundbreaking history, the Civil War is recounted from the previously silent victims that it most directly affected: the slaves themselves. Through hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters and memoirs, Ward offers an entirely new...
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Andrew Ward, Author Henry Holt & Company $30 (736p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2437-1
Making the most of his meticulous research, Ward, a novelist and essayist, has written an unhurried--the more impatient might say relentless--and lavishly detailed account of an unorganized and bloody revolt that swept through northern India in the...
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Andrew Ward, Author Viking Books $18.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-670-82217-1
This is a self-serving tale of the trauma experienced by Thomas Osborne (not his real name) in reclaiming his children, who were abducted by his ex-wife. Writing a first-person narrative, Ward (Fits and Starts) begins with the father's middle-class,
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Andrew Ward, Author Viking Books $18.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-83158-6
Ostensibly, these short, humorous essays, many of which were originally broadcast on National Public Radio's All Things Considered , are about life on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, where the author and his family moved in 1987. Ward, formerly a...
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