The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog

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Over the past decade, there has been a significant revival of interest in the architecture and designs of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). From Barnsdall Park in Los Angeles to the Zimmerman house in New Hampshire, from Florida Southern College to Taliesin in Wisconsin, with Fallingwater in between, Frank Lloyd Wright buildings open to the public receive thousands of visitors each year, and there is a thriving commerce in reproductions of Wright's furniture and fabric designs. Among the many books available on Frank Lloyd Wright, William Allin Storrer's classic—now fully revised and updated—remains the only authoritative guide to all of Wright's built work.

This edition includes a number of new features. It provides information on Frank Lloyd Wright buildings discovered since the first edition. It features full-color photographs to highlight those buildings that remain essentially as they were first built. To facilitate its use as a convenient field guide, this durable flexibound edition gives full addresses with each entry, as well as GPS coordinates, and offers maps giving the shortest route to each building. Preserving the chronological order of past editions, the catalog allows readers to trace the progression of Frank Lloyd Wright's built designs from the early Prairie school works to the last building constructed to Wright's specifications on the original site—the Aime and Norman Lykes residence.

The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright will be indispensable for anyone fascinated with Wright's unique architectural genius.

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A Trustworthy Guidebook.......2007-03-31

Experts William Allin Storrer and Thomas A. Heinz are our two best-known guides to the work of America's greatest architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Having said this...

Thomas A. Heinz, AIA, has built up a considerable body of work about the master architect, from regional guidebooks to one-house monographs. Chief among them are his pioneering books with full-color photographs which were among the first color renditions of the Wright buildings to be made available at modest prices for the general reader.

One also wishes to say this...

The cataloge, guidebooks and software offered by Mr. Storrer over the years have been excellent and continue to be augmented as time progresses.

Mr. Storrer is the expert on the who, what, when, where and why of Wright. This book is a catalog of all of Wright's works, but it is more than that. If you are a Wright aficionado, you will want to keep this book in your car and take it with you when you travel, to be sure that you get to see these notable works of architecture first-hand. Mr. Storrer will not only help you get there, he will give you what you need to know about each of them, based on a lifetime of scholarship and first-hand knowledge.

Before you go, however, here are a few things to keep in mind...

An increasing number of these buildings are open to the public on a regular basis and if so, by all means, do go inside or you will miss more than half of the reason you visited. Wright's interiors are serene and sublime.

Another, smaller, group of these buildings are open annually for special tours--most famously the Wright-Plus tour in Oak Park and River Forrest every May; there are a number of places on line where you can find out more about them.

Further, a small sample of these buildings now offer overnight accommodations, either as a rental space that you alone can enjoy or as a bed and breakfast. Again, do the research and make your stay memorable.

Finally, remember that the vast majority of the residences remain in private hands; they are costly to buy, expensive to restore and challenging to maintain authentically.

If you go, just a few thoughts about how to conduct yourself during your visit...especially if you are looking at a private residence, of which many of these are.

- Stay on public areas, such as sidewalks and streets.

- Take only photos and leave only footprints.

People who live in Wright houses do so because they appreciate his aesthetic, and they know that those who seek them out do so as well. So in most cases they are fine with courteous and discreet visitors who keep their distance and simply admire the work.

And if for some reason you cannot go, this catalog will still serve you well as a compendium of America's greatest architect's oeuvre.

One further thought...

From comments posted in other reviews here and elsewhere, wherever Wright is discussed, it is clear that a creeping form of professional rivalry exists among some of the leading Wright experts. Why, who knows? However, it is most unfortunate; since there will always be plenty of room in the ever-growing field of understanding and interpreting Wright's work for one and all.

For those mentioned above, as well as for Donald Hoffman (with his fine research on some of the greatest houses), (Wisconsin-Wright chronicler, photographer and blogger) Mark Hertzberg, Carla Lind (with her appreciative details-approach), Peter Beers (and his wonderful Wright road trips and over the top tattoos), the good folks at PrairieMod, and many others whom I apologize to for not mentioning by name, the ordinary Wright fan says, "Thank you and keep 'em coming!"

AMERICA'S FINEST.......2006-04-02

This is a very well done overview of all of Wright's works. Every project get's the requisite image and a short synopsis of the building. If you are someone that wants an indepth book on Wright, then this may not be the best book for you, but if you want an overview of all of Wright's work, then you will not be disappointed in this book.

True Wright Scholar.......2003-01-05

This book is an edited version of the FLW Companion by the same author. Lacks the floor plans, some of the text, but adds color pictures. This man knows all the architect's works intimately, and he finds something interesting to say about each one. You may find some of the entries insignificant, like a design for an exibition or a remodeling for a shop. Spends much of each house's description on the arrangement of rooms, which is difficult to follow without the diagram that was meant to go with it. Even so, it's probably the best choice for the average reader; anyone desperate for the plans can get the other version through his local library.

Finally !! After many months the 3rd edition is now here -.......2002-11-14

This book is just what it says it is, A complete catalog of the
works of Frank Lloyd Wright built during his life time. The text for each structure, in most cases was taken from Mr. Storrer's book The FLW Companion except where new data has been added since the original publication. Each site is illustrated with a photo. Even lost or demolished works, and most are in color. In many cases new or additional photos are included. For me, the main benefit of this book is the Field Guide Maps section at the end. As clearly stated in the text the scale of the maps is compressed for ease of display, BUT the actual site locations is
so accurately shown that you can determine which side of the street the structure is on and if visable from public property.

Why "out-of-print" and when it will be back.......2000-03-09

The reproduction quality provided by MIT Press was substandard. A new edition, with color of the extant work, is in the works for Spring 2001 publication.

The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright A Complete Catalog

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The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright A Complete Catalog
William Allin Storrer
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The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright a Complete Catalog
William Allin Storrer
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The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog, Updated 3rd Edition

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The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog, Updated 3rd Edition
William Allin Storrer
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: 0226776204

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Among the many books available on Frank Lloyd Wright, William Allin Storrer’s classic The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog is the authoritative guide to all of Wright’s built work.

This updated third edition revisits each of Wright’s existent structures, tracing the architect’s development from his Prairie works, such as the Frederick Robie house in Chicago, to the last building constructed to his specifications, the magnificent Aime and Norman Lykes residence in California. Renowned expert William Storrer deftly incorporates a series of key revisions and brings each structure’s history up to the present day, as some buildings have been refurbished, some moved, and others sadly abandoned or destroyed by natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina—including the James Charnley bungalow in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

Organized chronologically, this updated third edition features full-color photographs of all extant work along with a description of each building and its history. Storrer also provides full addresses, GPS coordinates, and maps of locations throughout the United States, England, and Japan, indicating the shortest route to each building—perfect for Wright aficionados on the go.
From Fallingwater to the Guggenheim, Frank Lloyd Wright is the undisputed master of American architecture. Now fully revised, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog will be indispensable for anyone fascinated with the architect’s unique genius.

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The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright-a Complete Catalog

Manufacturer: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
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The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright-a Complete Catalog
William A. Storres
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: A COMPLETE CATALOG

Manufacturer: MIT Press
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ASIN: B000GOZSKM

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At 6 o'clock one morning, Austrian art group gelatin suctioned out a window on one of the top floors of the World Trade Center, shunted out a narrow balcony constructed of smuggled building materials, and posed on it while a helicopter flew by and took their photographs. An unbelievable, completely illegal, and fully secret stunt when it was performed, "The B-Thing" is now unbearably surreal, weirdly prescient, and forever unrepeatable.

7 x 10.5 in.
40 color illustrations

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Great Book!.......2003-09-06

A really well-written book. This is not a children's book as it lists. It can be easily read by a teen or adult, but certainly not the 4 to 8 catagory. Very enjoyable biography of one of the members of the survey party that helped make Yellowstone National Park a reality. Text flows and is not dry or too detailed (but detailed enough for a good picture of his life). Has lots of B/W prints of his artwork and period photos. Also has several pages of color plates with his artwork. He was not only a good photographer who happened to be in the right place at the right time, but a very talented artist. I highly recommend this book.

William Henry Jackson Framing the Frontier

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William Henry Jackson Framing the Frontier
D. Waitley
Manufacturer: Mountain Press, 1998
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Join Mister, Aunt Mary, and Young Tim as they get drunk, party naked, and dissect everything sacred in Western civilization with their razor-edged and sardonic philosophies. Witness through our heroes' lives the decay of American morality as we know it. The amazing After School Special collects the original five issue run of Pete Sickman-Garner's twisted, self-published and extremely rare and out-of-print Hey, Mister minicomics. Two additional brand new stories, totaling 24 pages, were also created just for this collection. With all the disturbing pathos and blow-milk-through-your-nose comedy one could want for, this hefty compendium is guaranteed to give you the most for your hard-earned clamshells.

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Good Twisted Fun.......2002-02-26

A guy named Mister. A woman who is called Aunt Mary, even though she doesn't seem to be anyone's Aunt. A nameless grotesque. Something that seems to be a bald, one-toothed infant, but is apparently a grown man, named Young Tim. This is the primary cast of Pete Sickman-Garner's "Hey, Mister" comic. The "Afterschool Special" is comprised of a bunch of seemingly unrelated short stories- the characters are pretty much the same in each story, but their situations vary....In one strip, Mister & Young Tim live together, in another, they don't even know each other.

I can't recall laughing so hard in quite some time. Sickman-Garner assaults the reader with more bizarre situations and characters than you can shake a stick at:

A sexually abused Dog....

Young Tim forced to impersonate a Chicken......

A "Hideous Mutant" who is unwittingly granted 3 wishes...

A lucid dreamer who sleeps for 50 years while dreaming of
playing strip poker with The Pope...

A million reasons why you should NOT start your own
business....

Sickman-Garner delivers a great package, packed with laughs, at a low price. A great buy for anyone who has ever wished someone would have "A lousy life..."

great indie comic.......2001-05-17

Hey, I'm the first one to write a review on this!That, of course, can only mean this book isn't as popular as it's got every right to be.Mr. Sickman-Garner's work is depressing and wildly funny at the same time, and we all know that's a sure sign of greatness. My only complaint is that the often tiny lettering is something of a strain on the eyes, but that didn't keep me from reading the book several times.

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Although known internationally at the time of his death, Harold Frederic (1856-1898), is best known today as the author of The Damnation of Theron Ware. Using published accounts as well as archival materials unavailable to earlier writers on Frederic, Myers has produced the first full-length biographical and critical study of Frederic, narrating the events of Frederic's early life in Utica, New York, his early career as newspaperman, his appointment as the London correspondent of the New York Times, and his career as a professional author. Frederic was a colorful fellow. As a correspondent in London in the 1890s, he knew Henry James, Stephen Crane, George Gissing, and a host of other literary characters. He fully lived a bohemian life, keeping a real wife and a common-law wife simultaneously, fathering broods of children, writing journalism and novels at a great rate, and dying at 42 of overwork--partly because he let his second wife talk him into refusing medical help (leading to a scandalous court case). Myers concentrates on four main themes: Frederic as an expatriate; his work as representative of the transition from realism to naturalism in American literature; Frederic as a transitional author in the shift from 19th century to 20th century styles of publishing; and Frederic as a representative of the "fin de siecle." Myers has worked extensively with Frederic's correspondence as well as in publishers' archives (especially Scribner's), and he sees Frederic as a writer who flourished just as the American literary marketplace was being transformed from the rather poky 19th-century model into the faster-paced 20th-century version so familiar today. This biography will interest not just specialists and Frederic scholars, but also anyone with an interest in American literary culture in one of its defining moments.

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An adolescent boy turns hostile and sarcastic. A previously happy fourth-grader suddenly has problems sleeping. A young girl picks at her dinner and obsesses about her weight. Many behavior problems--ranging from depression, rebellion, and addiction to aggression and beyond--may be rooted in hidden or repressed anger. In this helpful new guide, Dr. Henry Paul explains what makes children angry; how age, gender, and background can affect their expression of anger; the right and wrong ways to respond to anger-based behavior--and, most importantly, how to gain a new understanding of this powerful emotion, foster healthy development, and strengthen the bond between parent and child in a loving, constructive way.

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Absolutely Fabulous.......2002-08-03

An absolute must. This book is brief, to the point and sensible. It doesn't waste your time with a whole lot of psycho babble, but helps you discover the causes of anger that lay beneath the behavior you see. Most important for parents is to be educated on HOW we handle anger so we can make the changes in our own behavior that will break the anger cycle. An absolute keeper.

An insightful view of a child's anger & how best to respond.......2000-07-13

This book completely changed the way I viewed my child's anger. Now I can be more understanding of the real underlying issues involved and respond in a more constructive and confident manner. His anger is a plea for help and I am now his helper. Reading this book certainly improved our relationship.

When Kids Are Mad, Not Bad: A Guide to Recognizing and Handling Children's Anger

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When Kids Are Mad, Not Bad: A Guide to Recognizing and Handling Children's Anger
Henry A. Paul
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Well told overview

Accessible and Engaging Book on a Crucial Campaign

More, and better maps would have been great!

Lookout Mountain Wasn't Always A Tourist Trap!

Better storyteller than most

Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863
Wiley Sword
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The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: THE BATTLES FOR CHATTANOOGA (Civil War Trilogy)

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Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865

Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)

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An Award-Winning Historian Dramatically Re-Creates a Turning Point of the Civil WarIt was one of the most startling events of the civil war, the "hour of destiny" for the Union. Faced with the prospect of catastrophic defeat, the North's greatest generals--Ulysses Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Thomas, and Phil Sheridan--were commanding a battle fror the besieged city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Suddenly, as an aghast Grant and Thomas watched, the beleaguered federal tropps began a headlong, climactic, seemingly suicidal charge up the face of a six-hundred-foot-high mountain ridge overlooking the city, under ferocious fire from the Confederate infantry that held the ridge.The siege of Chattanooga and its stuffing turnabout form the core of Wiley Sword's lively narrative. Dozens of previously unpublished photographs, maps, and excepts from private journals, and letters enhance this vivid account. Written with novelistic flair and a historian's authority, Mountains Touched with Fire captures every side of this crucial Civil War battle whose aftermath sealed the fate of the South.

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Well told overview.......2005-11-04

I picked up this book after reading another Sword work, "The Confederacy's Last Hurrah", which I consider amongst my favorite books. I think Mountains Touched with Fire is not quite on that caliber, but is a well written and told overview of a somewhat unwritten about campaign. His writings on the dealings between Union General William Rosecrans and Pres. Lincoln were very interesting to me and almost led me to expand upon that topic for a college paper. His description of the "Cracker Line" and the battle for Lookout Mountain stood out to me as well. I also knew very little about the campaign before reading the book, but I feel I now have a good hold on the information. The book is very readable and enjoyable, but gets 4 stars from me because I feel it is a notch below some of Sword's other work and, as mentioned in other revies, the maps can be frustrating.

Accessible and Engaging Book on a Crucial Campaign.......2004-10-14

The siege and battle of Chattanooga presents a complex and difficult challenge to a writer. The action was spread out over more than a two-month period. It included the critical but inactive month long siege, when the Army of the Cumberland was besieged and nearly starved out of Chattanooga by Bragg's Confederates. Then followed a month of various actions, large and small, from the October 28 Brown's Ferry action that opened the cracker line, to Cleburne's rear guard fight to defend the fleeing Confederate army on November 27. This was all further complicated by both the politics that was altering the Union command, and the vicious political infighting among Bragg's high command that played a huge role in the eventual outcome of the campaign. Wiley Sword has done a masterful job of tackling the daunting task of weaving a clear, informative, and exciting tapestry from all of these various threads.
Sword begins with the bloody battle of Chickamauga. By devoting the first three chapters to this devastating defeat of the Union Army of the Cumberland that set up the conditions for the siege at Chattanooga, Sword wisely avoids opening his book with the long inaction of the siege. By necessity, a large section is devoted to the siege, and even Sword's fine writing sometimes fails to enliven this dull but crucial build up to the final crisis. He then expertly makes sense of the various and confusing military actions that started in late October, and did not end until the desperate rear guard action of the Confederates in flight on November 27. His account of Thomas' "demonstration" which turned into a full scale assault up Missionary Ridge and turned the tide of the battle is the most stirring of any that I have ever read of this amazing event.
Sword vividly paints Chattanooga as the most devilishly unpredictable of campaigns. Men with impressive reputations such as General Sherman and Confederate General Longstreet met with only failure and embarrassment here. The best plans of the Union's hero, General Grant, utterly failed, while actions planned only as diverting demonstrations turned into major victories at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. The action which against all odds swept the Confederates from their nearly impregnable position atop Missionary Ridge was based on a spur of the moment, ill-considered mistake made by Grant, and succeeded at least in part because it should never have been attempted. Sword shows a campaign won not by the generals, but by the vagaries of chance and the mettle of the men in the ranks.
Mountain Touched with Fire is not the last word on Chattanooga. There may be other works that go into greater detail, and it certainly could have had more maps. However, it is the most accessible, the most engaging book on the subject, and the best place to begin to understand this complicated and crucial campaign.

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More, and better maps would have been great!.......2004-04-14

I want to start off by saying that I loved this book, and this was the first book on the Siege/Battle of Chattanooga that I have read. There was one glaring inaccurarcy: while describing Sherman's movement from Memphis to Chattanooga (via the Memphis & Charleston RR), Sword misplaces the town of Colliersville as being in Mississippi, while, in fact, it is in Tennessee. I know this as I live within 20 miles of Collierville.

Sword, as usual, is very skillful in his writing. His book on Shiloh was, I believe, the best on that battle, and this book definitely doesn't dissapoint. The photo section of this book was great.

Why, you may ask, didn't I give this book five stars, then? The reason is that his book had very few maps, and those provided, while not bad, could definitely have been better. If there had been more maps, I most likely would have given this book five stars.

With all that said, I would recommend this book to anyone who has a sincere interest in the campaigns of the War Between the States. At the price Amazon.Com charges, I would recommend even more highly that you purchase it.

Lookout Mountain Wasn't Always A Tourist Trap!.......2002-07-12

This book concerns itself with the siege of Chattanooga in the fall of 1863 by the Confederates and the unexpected breakout by Union forces just when it seemed that they on the verge of suffering a major defeat. Historian Willey Sword weaves a brilliant narrative that reveals the behind-the-scenes infighting of the Confederate generals and the ineptness of many of the northern generals as well as the rise of Ulysses S. Grant (this battle helped to cement his reputation). But what I found most compelling about this book was the detailed descriptions of the incredible suffering that was sustained by the common soldiers.

Many people have a romantic image of the Civil War. But the reality is that the average soldier suffered hardships that cannot even be imagined today. For example, so starved were the troops on both sides during the siege that many were driven to such desperate acts as eating bark off trees or picking undigested corn from animal feces. For in those days, supplies to the battlefield often had to travel hundreds of miles on rail which were often sabotaged by the enemy. Even if the supplies made it to the nearest depot safely, they still had to travel dozens of miles by horse-driven wagons over muddy and often impassable roads. The sad truth is that most supplies ended up rotting or otherwise were destroyed before they even got to the troops, ensuring a constant lack of vital supplies and rampant starvation and illnesses.

By this stage of the Civil War, it was apparent that many of the rank-and-file soldiers were sick of the war and just wanted it to end. In fact, soldiers on opposing sides of the picket lines would often banter playfully with each other and trade such items as pocket knives and tobacco back and forth across enemy lines. But they would soon enough be engaged in bloody battle once again. The climactic battle makes for gripping reading and many unexpected (and unheralded) heros turn disaster into victory (for the Union).

The battle described in this book is typical of many Civil War battles. Lots of people were slaughtered and maimed. Many of them senselessly on account of ill-advised orders from their own officers. It is amazing how the United States was able to reunite at all after such a bloody conflict (over 520,000 Americans were killed), but that is a story for other books to tell. This book only concerns itself with the action at Chattanooga in late 1863 and the narrow focus of the book is an advantage as it does not bore the reader with a confusing tangle of battles and generals - the pitfall of many of the other Civil War books.

The only disappointment with this book (and keeping it from getting five stars) is that there are only a few maps and they are horrid and almost useless. This extremely well-written text deserves better situation maps and more of them so that the reader can better picture the action in his/her mind.

Better storyteller than most.......2001-03-31

Wiley Sword has a richly deserved reputation as a Civil War historian and a writer. Although the title indicates the book is about the battle of Chattanooga, the book is half gone before you start the fighting that occurred in Nov. 1864.

Sword starts with the Tullahoma Campaign, touches on the events preceding Chickamauga, and with the fires still glowing 12 miles south of Chattanooga, Sword begins to weave the tale of America's Scenic City late in 1863. The Union Army is stranded with little food and little hope of increasing its supply, Rosecrans is arrogently refusing to admit to his problem and General Grant is put in charge of a potentially disasterous situation.

Grant's first concern are the men trapped in this valley between two mountains. He is willing to overlook his distaste for George Thomas, who is, well, a Virginian in the Union Army. Once a supply route is secure and the rations begin to pour into the besieged city, Grant turns his attention to the problem at hand -- lifting the seige and driving the Rebels back. This he does in a series of four battles, Orchard Knob, the "Battle Above the Clouds," Missionary Ridge and Ringgold Gap.

The Confederates are being torn apart by the hatred of most of the generals for their commanding officer, Braxton Bragg. And as much a the book is a big hurrah for General Grant and Thomas, its an indictment of the beleaguered commander of the Army of Tennessee.

Sword's strength is his ability to tell a story without sacrificing historical accuracy. I suppose he could have gone into more detail, but I like it just the way it is. We don't need another Cozzens epic.

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MOUNTAINS TOUCHED WITH FIRE Chattanooga Besieged 1863
Wiley Sword
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Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863

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Author Wiley Sword details the personalities involved in the months-long siege that led to the Battle of Chattanooga, and its aftermath, that helped seal the Confederacy's fate. Narrated by Robert Sevra. Unabridged on 12 audio cassettes. 17.5 Hrs run time. Library Edition.

MOUNTAINS TOUCHED WITH FIRE: CHATTANOOGA BESIEGED, 1863

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MOUNTAINS TOUCHED WITH FIRE: CHATTANOOGA BESIEGED, 1863
Wiley Sword
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This reader brings together eight of the most influential recent articles on Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum. It focuses on the years from Charles I 's execution in 1649 to Cromwell 's own death in 1658.The articles explore key themes, such as Cromwell 's complex personality, beliefs and motives; the nature of his role and influence during the Interregnum; his relationships with Parliaments, the Army and the Council; and the impact of the Commonwealth and Protectorate on British politics and society. They represent the diversity of approaches and perspectives that historians have brought to these issues, but all of them explore why Cromwell never achieved enduring political stability. The book is British in scope, including treatments of Ireland and Scotland as well as England.The volume opens with an editorial introduction to recent controversies in the field, and each essay is prefaced with a headnote setting it within its historiographical context.

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