Bruce Catton (1899–1978)
Autor de A Stillness at Appomattox
Sobre El Autor
Bruce Catton, whose complete name was Charles Bruce Catton, was born in Petoskey, Michigan, on October 9, 1899. A United States journalist and writer, Catton was one of America's most popular Civil War historians. Catton worked as a newspaperman in Boston, Cleveland, and Washington, and also held a mostrar más position at the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1948. Catton's best-selling book, A Stillness at Appomattox, a recount of the most spectacular conflicts between Generals Grant and Lee in the final year of the Civil War, earned him a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1954. In 1977, the year before his death, Catton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from President Gerald R. Ford, who noted that the author and historian "made us hear the sounds of battle and cherish peace." Before his death in 1978, Catton wrote a total of ten books detailing the Civil War, including his last, Grant Takes Command. Since 1984, the Bruce Catton Prize was awarded for lifetime achievement in the writing of history. In cooperation with American Heritage Publishing Company, the Society of American Historians in 1984 initiated the biennial prize that honors an entire body of work. It is named for Bruce Catton, prizewinning historian and first editor of American Heritage magazine. The prize consisted of a certificate and 2,500 dollars. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de Bruce Catton
The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army; Glory Road; A Stillness at Appomattox (1953) — Autor — 679 copias, 4 reseñas
The Centennial History of the Civil War: The Coming Fury; Terrible Swift Sword; Never Call Retreat (1961) 314 copias, 1 reseña
Two Roads to Sumter: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and the March to the Civil War (1971) 134 copias, 1 reseña
Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (LOA #359): Mr. Lincoln's Army / Glory Road / A Stillness at… (2022) 110 copias
First Year of American Heritage: The Complete Contents of the First Six Issues of "the Magazine of (1958) 16 copias, 1 reseña
American Heritage Civil War Chronology 14 copias
Ethics and Armaments 1 copia
American Heritage (4vol) 1 copia
American Heritage February 1974 1 copia
AMERICAN HERITAGE (The Magazine of History). Volume XXVIII, Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; 1976-77 (1977) 1 copia
AMERICAN HERITAGE (The Magazine of History). Volume XX, Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; 1968-69. (1969) 1 copia
Books on the Civil War 1 copia
A MICHIGAN BOYHOOD 1 copia
La guerre de Sécession, tome 2 1 copia
The Civil War 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Informe de la comision Warren sobre el asesinato del presidente Kennedy (1964) — Epílogo, algunas ediciones — 975 copias, 6 reseñas
Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War (1882) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 878 copias, 14 reseñas
The American Heritage Book of The Revolution (1958) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 648 copias, 5 reseñas
A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage (1985) — Contribuidor — 469 copias, 4 reseñas
Twenty Days: A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1965) — Prólogo — 178 copias, 1 reseña
The Greatest War Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Four Incredible War Tales (2001) — Contribuidor — 30 copias, 1 reseña
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1989 (1989) — Author "A Matter of a Salute" — 19 copias
American Heritage Magazine Vol 23 No 2 1972 February (1972) — Contribuidor; Senior Editor — 15 copias
Best-in-Books The Silver Chalice; A King's Story; A Man Called Peter; The Day Chist Died; Kids Say the Darndest Things;… (1960) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2011 (2010) — Author "A Madman's Business" — 7 copias
Rachel Cade / It's a Big Country / Pirate / A Stillness at Appomattox / Diamond (1957) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Best-in-Books: Twilight for the Gods / How to Do It / Please Don't Eat the Daisies / Life at Happy Knoll / Stillness at… (1958) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Catton, Charles Bruce
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1899-10-09
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1978-08-28
- Lugar de sepultura
- Benzonia Township Cemetery, Benzie County, Michigan, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Petoskey, Michigan, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Frankfort, Michigan, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Washington, D.C., USA
Benzonia, Michigan, USA - Educación
- Oberlin College (1916, no degree)
- Ocupaciones
- reporter
director
historian
journalist - Relaciones
- Catton, William Bruce (son)
- Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1955])
United States Navy (WWI)
United States Department of Commerce
United States Department of the Interior
American Heritage
Newspaper Enterprise Association - Premios y honores
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
Honorary Doctorate
Pulitzer Prize (History, 1954)
Miembros
Debates
Shelfby Foote v. Bruce Catton v. James McPherson en American Civil War (julio 2017)
Reseñas
Army Of The Potomac, Glory Road - Vol 2 por Bruce Catton
The central book in Bruce Catton's masterpiece, the Army of the Potomac. We begin with the withdrawal after the bloody nose at Fredericksburg and end with the crowning mercy of Gettysburg. the Army goes from Burnside, to Hooker, and finally to Meade, being in command, and is badly abused, but eventually triumphant. Catton has sympathy with these men, and the books shows it well. No Civil War libary is complete without this volume, and, the position it holds says a good deal aboout the sympathies of the owner of the library. If you have read the curious production of Shelby Foote, this series is a necessary and more accurate corrective.… (más)
5838. Reflections on the Civil War, by Bruce Catton (read 16 Mar 2024) Lots of words by an expert on the War but not a single word as to direct sources. Just tells how much Cattaon knows.
A classic overview of the war that will probably seem quite familiar to folks who watched the Ken Burns series. Rather too sympathetic to the South for my tastes.
An exceptional single volume source for the whys and wherefores of a crucial piece of American History.
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