Gettysburg: A Meditation on War and Values
“It is the province of the historian to find out, not what was, but what is."
“This is a most brilliant and unusual, indeed unique, book. Essentially a well-researched and critically sound account of Gettysburg, it is also much more. The latter aspect results from the author’s use of the battle as the premise for his meditations. Provocative and full of insight, these concern the Civil War as a whole, history, values, and the human condition.”
“This is a remarkable work, full of brightness and invention and maybe even genius. Mr. Gramm is a poet; he has taken the cathartic event of our history and given it his touch of philosophic insight. Books like this don’t come along very often.”
“I love this book.”
“This splendid book is a must for anyone who has visited Civil War battlefields and wondered who those people were and how we relate to them today.”
“It is the most original and thought-provoking work on the battle of Gettysburg in a long time.”
