Clare
“Superbly crafted, with an equal mastery of the human heart. Absolutely outstanding.”
Gettysburg: A Meditation on War and Values
“This is a remarkable work, full of brightness and invention and maybe even genius.”
November: Lincoln’s Elegy at Gettysburg
“This is a book to read and ponder all twelve months of the year.”
Cars: A Romantic Manifesto
“. . . a seething admixture of erudition, despair, hopefulness, realism, romanticism, contempt, and humility. And also a foundational affirmation of the redemptive potential of love.”
Somebody’s Darling: Essays on the Civil War
…a window into the universal experience of war.
Psalms for Skeptics
“Irreverent and subversive, they nevertheless regard the views they question as imposing enough to deserve a passionate reply. Too witty and wide-ranging to be strident, the poems move from personal experience into politics and cosmology. They truly rise to the occasion.”
Psalms for the Poor
Psalms for the Poor talk back to the blunt and beautiful phrases of the King James Bible. Sometimes personal, sometimes political, the original Psalms complain, question, curse, and adore
Gettysburg: The Living and the Dead
“Gettysburg—the place and the battle—is offered here in a kind of fifth dimension, a remarkable assembly of haunts, gripping and moving, that is very hard to put down.”
The Prayer of Jesus
“This promises to become a universally beloved book.”
Sharpsburg: A Civil War Narrative
Through the eyes and voices of two soldiers who fought at Antietam, one Confederate and one Union, Kent Gramm cuts to the core of that terrible experience and its larger meaning