Belligerent Muse : Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understandin…

War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. In Belligerent Muse, Stephen Cushman considers the Civil War writings of five of the most significant and best known narrators of the conflict: Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ambrose Bierce, and […]