Word: catton
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NEVER CALL RETREAT by Bruce Catton. 555 pages. Doubleday...
...believes our heritage belongs to all the people and not just to the long-faced historian, I with my sons have participated in battle re-enactments over the past four years [April 16]. Vicarious though the experience may have been, we can begin to appreciate what Bruce Catton is writing about. We have stood on the heights at Manassas, Antietam and Gettysburg and watched the battle flags advance over the hallowed ground. Forgive us if we do not feel that we were desecrating the memory of our dead any more than those who re-enact the Passion play desecrate...
...main address came from Historian Bruce Catton. Appomattox, said Catton, should remind Americans that "We have one country now, but at a terrible price, cemented everlastingly together because at the end of our most terrible war the men who had fought so hard decided that they had had enough of hatred...
APRIL--American Heritage magazine announces the official end of the Civil War centennial celebration, as George Wallace shakes hands with Dick Gregory at Appomattox and congratulates him on the title of his new book. Says Heritage's popular editor-in-chief, Bruce Catton, "It's time for a change. We need a reorientation of attitudes toward the American past. Too few people realize that this is the 97th anniversary of the Burlingame Treaty which welcomed coolie labor to the United States. We hope to make the centennial into a big thing...
...Roads to Sumter is too palpably designed for the casual readers to be a valuable piece of scholarship. Many of its thoughts on political moderation are shrewd and timely, but a sensational tone exhibits them to poor advantage. For the Messrs. Catton, as for Lincoln and Douglas in the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, it appears that "exact historical accuracy was less important than an appealing argument...