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Bruce Catton was born in Petoskey, Michigan, in 1899. A United States journalist and writer, Catton was one of America's most popular Civil War historians. He worked as a newspaperman in Boston, Cleveland, and Washington, and also held a position at the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1948. Catton's best-selling book, A Stillness at Appomattox, earned him a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1954. Before his death in 1978, Catton wrote a total of ten books detailing the Civil War.
Praise for Bruce Catton and Gettysburg: The Final Fury Military history . . . at its best. --Chicago Tribune Nothing in our time makes the Civil War as alive as the writings of Bruce Catton. --The Baltimore Sun No one around can write of the 'terrible beauty of an army' the way Bruce Catton can. --The Washington Post Book World A rare combination of talent as a writer and historian. --The Kansas City Star No one ever wrote American history with more easy grace, beauty and emotional power, or greater understanding of its meaning, than Bruce Catton. There is a near-magic power of imagination in Catton's work that seemed to project him physically into the battlefields, along the dusty roads and to the campfires of another age. --Oliver Jensen, former editor of American Heritage [Catton combines] a scholar's appreciation of the Grand Design with a newsman's keenness for meaningful vignette. . . . Catton created an 'enlisted man's-eye view' of the war that treated humanely the errors on both sides. --Newsweek All [of Catton's Civil War books] are remarkably good books, distinguised by a vivid, fast-moving style. --The New York Times Book Review One of the most skillful old pros that the craft [of historical narrative] has ever known. --Saturday Review of Books
