{"id":24195,"date":"2019-01-31T12:51:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T18:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24195"},"modified":"2019-01-29T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:53:55","slug":"book-report-bradys-civil-war-by-webb-garrison-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/31\/book-report-bradys-civil-war-by-webb-garrison-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Brady’s Civil War<\/i> by Webb Garrison (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookWhat better book to review on Super Bowl week than a book about Brady? Except I flipped through most of this last week, only finishing it this week, and the Brady in question is Matthew Brady, the mid-ninteenth century photographer, and not the football player. Other than that, it’s almost the same thing.<\/p>\n

The book sat on my side table for flipping through during football games, but the paragraph-length text was a little too detailed for distracted browsing, and the coffee table book size made it unwieldy for the sofa. But now that I’m clearing the books from that table, I spent some dedicated time with it.<\/p>\n

Historians spend a lot of time poring over these photos in detail, but I looked at them a little less studiously. Mostly marveling at the photographs that are 150+ years old. <\/p>\n

I did spend a lot of time with the captions, though, more than the glances at the images themselves. As I always do when I review picture books from the Civil War, I realize how little I really know about the details of it. I could do better, as I inherited a decent collection from my beautiful wife’s uncle, and I did just buy a reading copy of Ulysses Grant’s memoirs. Perhaps I need to want to brush up enough to stack the books on a table and then, in a year or so, make it a project to read them all to get them off the table.<\/p>\n

At any rate, back to this book: A good collection, and amazing, of course, that these are pictures. Of the Civil War.<\/p>\n

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