1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453689703321

Titolo

The Real war will never get in the books [[electronic resource] ] : selections from writers during the Civil War / / edited by Louis P. Masur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

1-4294-0153-2

1-280-52815-X

0-19-972686-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MasurLouis P

Disciplina

810.80358

Soggetti

Authors, American - 19th century

American literature - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literary collections

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Henry Brooks Adams; Louisa May Alcott; Lydia Maria Child; John Esten Cooke; John William De Forest; Frederick Douglass; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Charlotte Forten; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Herman Melville; William Gilmore Simms; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Walt Whitman; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

""These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife,) tried by terrible, fearfulest tests, probed deepest, the living soul's, the body's tragedies, bursting the petty bounds of art."" So wrote Walt Whitman in March of 1863, in a letter tellingfriends in



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910693214203321

Autore

Walker David M (David Michael), <1951->

Titolo

DOD's high-risk areas [[electronic resource] ] : successful business transformation requires sound strategic planning and sustained leadership : testimony before the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate / / statement of David M. Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Government Accountability Office, , [2005]

Collana

Testimony ; ; GAO-05-520 T

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on May 5, 2005).

"For release ... April 13, 2005."

Paper version available from: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.