Chapter 16
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Memphis, Key to the Mississippi

Edward B. McCaul Jr. examines the Civil War struggle for control of the Mississippi River

In To Retain Command of the Mississippi: The Civil War Naval Campaign for Memphis Edward B. McCaul Jr. argues that the battle at Memphis was in many ways the pivotal

Alone in the Locker Room, Bleeding

Andrew Maraniss’s Strong Inside is a superb biography of SEC basketball pioneer Perry Wallace

…America in the 1960s. Above all it is a meditation on the personal price of progress, about what happens to the people we ask to be racial pioneers, and what…

A Stubborn, Gentle-Hearted Survivor

Robert Bausch talks with Chapter 16 about his novel of the old West, Far As the Eye Can See

…in the Civil War. It was 484 legal-pad pages. Weighed six and a half pounds, I think. I watched the usual TV westerns because my parents watched them: Gunsmoke, Have…

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