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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...
Civil War historians should find 1963 a congenial year. It marks the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, at a time when racial conflicts dating back to that document are nearing resolution. No writer appreciates the year's drama more than Bruce Catton, author of A Stillness at Appomattox and nearly a dozen other distinguished popular histories of the Civil...
...Catton's latest book, however, will disappoint his past readers. Written jointly by him and his son, Two Roads to Sumter evaluates the decisions that brought the bombardment in Charleston harbor on April 12, 1861. To exemplify the parting roads taken by North and South, the authors study the careers of the wartime Presidents, Lincoln and Davis. Although this device unifies the book efficiently, it frequently presents tenuous historical parallels; Davis was born in Kentucky just a year before Lincoln, but his intellect needs considerable stretching to match Lincoln's stature...
...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...
...Terrible Swift Sword, Catton...