Sherman's March in Myth and Memory [Paperback]

This book is a valuable resource. The breadth of coveragehistory, literature, poetry, song, stage, and screenis extremely impressive.Having read the first two excellent bookson Forrest and Mosbyin this unique trilogy, I opened this final book with high expectations of a masterful achievement. In both fact and myth, Sherman was and clearly still is multifaceted. On the eve of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, Caudill and Ashdown eloquently render a multifaceted portrait of a hell of a man.As is often true in our history, the mythology of major events has a history of its own, shaping our visions of the past. Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown have traced this Civil War scar in Southern memory to its roots in reality, in memoirs, in histories, in the press, and in mythology, basing their story on rich primary sources and portraying events with the same elegant language they have used in other important Civil War interpretative histories.A major contribution to Civil War historiography. . . cannot be overlooked. Recommended for all history collectionsCivil War, social, or intellectualin all libraries.Integral to the study of public history and collective memory to deliver a cutting-edge analysis.Perhaps the most impressive thing about mass media is their ability to shape historical memory and imagination. Sherman's March in Myth and Memory is one of the best examples now available that shows how this phenomenon works in transforming a region's understanding of itself. Professors Caudill and Ashdown are to be highly commended for this first rate work.Interesting and exceptionally well-sourced. . . . Thoroughly enjoyable. It provides a worthy new addition to the now burgeoning field of scholarship about media and public memory and would be useful not only to historians but in graduate seminars for students of both history and mass communication.Recommended.The images of Gen. William T. Sherman's men marching through Georgia seemingly remain burned into the American histlc3