Richard Slotkin, Author . Holt $35 (639p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4124-8
Slotkin (a National Book Award finalist for Gunfighter Nation)
examines the relationship between war and citizenship in this trenchant, gracefully written military and social history of the African-American 369th Infantry, known as the "Harlem...
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Richard Slotkin, Author . Random $28 (411p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6675-9
Three decades after publishing a novel on the Battle of the Crater, Wesleyan professor emeritus Slotkin offers a historical analysis of an event meant as a turning point in the Civil War but remembered instead as one of its greatest failures. Most...
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Richard Slotkin, Author John MacRae Books $27.5 (478p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4123-1
Slotkin's young Abe Lincoln may owe something to Twain's Huck Finn and his trip down the great Mississippi, but it owes far more to Slotkin's own fine wit and inventiveness as well as years of research into American frontier life. Novels about...
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Richard Slotkin, Author Atheneum Books $40 (850p) ISBN 978-0-689-12163-0
The myth of the Western frontier--which assumes that whites' conquest of Native Americans and the taming of the wilderness were preordained means to a progressive, civilized society--is embedded in our national psyche. U.S. troops called Vietnam ``In
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Richard Slotkin. Norton/Liveright, $32.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-871-40411-4
Historian Slotkin (Regeneration Through Violence) moves from his path-breaking studies of America’s cultural mythology of violence to a set piece of real-life carnage in this gripping, multifaceted history of the Civil War’s bloodiest day. The...
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Richard Slotkin, Author, James M. McPherson, Introduction by Henry Holt & Company $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4247-4
Mixing history with fiction, Slotkin's novel is based on a disastrous Union attack during the last year of the Civil War. (July)
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Richard Stolkin, Author, Richard Slotkin, Author Atheneum Books $24.95 (535p) ISBN 978-0-689-11811-1
Our mythologizing of the Old West is the theme of this epic novel about an Oklahoma outlaw who eventually immortalizes his own career in the silent movies. The eponymous hero Henry Starr, half-Cherokee nephew of Belle Starr and grandson of one of...
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