Allen C. Guelzo
I've just finished Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen Guelzo, the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War. It is a magnificent, balanced, carefully wrought history of the most memorable and important battle in American history; the battle that inspired Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
It's a complex story, artfully captured in an Alfred Knopf book, and I am privileged to read it. The book greatly deepened my understanding of the Civil War, and helped me to understand the complex battle, and the difficult personalities of those who fought it.
The book helped me grasp not only the war, but what the United States of America is about. Surely Professor Guelzo ranks among our finest historians.
It's a complex story, artfully captured in an Alfred Knopf book, and I am privileged to read it. The book greatly deepened my understanding of the Civil War, and helped me to understand the complex battle, and the difficult personalities of those who fought it.
The book helped me grasp not only the war, but what the United States of America is about. Surely Professor Guelzo ranks among our finest historians.
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