April 1865 The Month That Saved America

"There is a great deal of learning in in this book as well as a great deal of historical sweep. And yet Mr. Winik...has written a strangely uneven and unwieldy work. His overall command of his subject is impressive, but his prose is rhetorically overblown, mannered, full of the hackneyed devices of melodrama. In many places he writes more like Snoopy on his rooftop than the sophisticated historian he is. [A] study both in leadership and institutional stability, which Mr. Winik handles insightfully. His main point is both provocative and inspiring. [A] book that is in many ways a fresh, intelligent recasting of the American story.Winik, Jay is the author of 'April 1865 The Month That Saved America', published 2002 under ISBN 9780060930882 and ISBN 0060930888.