NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #37 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
Tonight, I'm kicking off a three-night event—books about the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, among my favorite history topics. Tonight, books on the war itself, all available at @CityLightsBooks, which was saved by an awesome GoFundMe campaign. Keep it up! Buy a book!
1) Adam Goodheart's beautifully written and deeply researched book "1861" argues that the first year of the war represented a moment as important to American freedom as 1776: bookshop.org/books/1861-the…
2) Drew Gilpin Faust's REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING, about how American culture changed during the Civil War, is one of the finest and most illuminating works of American history I've ever read: bookshop.org/books/this-rep…
3) Burke Davis's classic SHERMAN'S MARCH is an interesting, readable narrative of one of the defining moments of the war: bookshop.org/books/sherman-…
4) Last year saw two great new books: Elizabeth Varon's ARMIES OF DELIVERANCE, a political study of the war, bookshop.org/books/armies-o… and SC Gwynne's (@scgwynne) HYMNS OF THE REPUBLIC, a colorful and eye-opening narrative of the final year of the war: bookshop.org/books/hymns-of…
5) Nicholas Lemann's (@nicholaslemann) REDEMPTION, about the period after the war, makes clear how the south—and white supremacists particularly—kept fighting viciously after the war and, frankly, managed to win another century of black oppression: bookshop.org/books/redempti…
PS: If you've never about Reconstruction generally, the brutality is horrifying. That's also the subject of Heather Cox Richardson's (@HC_Richardson) new book this month HOW THE SOUTH WON THE CIVIL WAR, which is part of my next order from @Bookshop_Org: bookshop.org/books/how-the-…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. Tune in tomorrow night for my favorite books on Abraham Lincoln. What are your favorites on the Civil War? Your favorite indies? #avidreadersunite
