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Honorary Doctor of Letters degrees were conferred on Barbara Ward Jackson, British economist, and Civil War historian Bruce Catton...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 10:30 a.m., CBS). Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs discussed by Author Bruce (This Hallowed Ground) Catton, Columbia Professor David Donald...
...these anecdotes of men and leaders, as in his outlines of strategy and the headlong shock of battles. Catton writes with pace and purpose that more than make up for a certain purpleness in his prose...
Revealing Vignettes. Such was the rambunctious, unpredictable human material that fought and won the bitterest conflict in U.S. history. Catton's book, "The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War," fills in the broad canvas of the four-year struggle on an area of a million square miles with revealing vignettes of the men who had to do the hard work and the hard dying. There is Sherman's army, on the eve of its march through Georgia, using up its issue of candles to create a festival of light, so that "for miles across...
Double Questions. Catton is not so successful when bitten by the malady known as historian's hindsight. At intervals, he pulls up his narrative to suggest questions about whether the war need ever have been fought at all or, on the other hand, whether it could not have taken another course. For these double-barreled questions Catton provides double-barreled answers ("Fate can move in two directions at once. At the same moment that it was driving men on to destroy the unity of their society it was also making certain that they would not be able...