Skip to content

The Road to Appomattox.

The Road to Appomattox.

Click for full-size.

The Road to Appomattox.

by Willey, Bell Irvin

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
BINDING/CONDITION: light turquoise cloth; a mended tear on the front free endpaper; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jack
Seller
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Oroville, California, United States
Item Price
A$38.85
Or just A$34.97 with a
Bibliophiles Club Membership
A$5.44 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 3 to 14 days

More Shipping Options

Payment Methods Accepted

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • PayPal

About This Item

Memphis, Tennessee:: Memphis State College Press, 1956.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light turquoise cloth; a mended tear on the front free endpaper; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.75 inches tall) . Description: Includes a section of black and white plates. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Since the curtain fell on the Confederate States of America in 1865, many people on both sides of the Mason and Dixon line have speculated on the cause of the South's defeat. Hundreds of books and articles have been devoted to this question. In this book, originally presented as the J P Young lectures at Memphis State College in October, 1954, Bell Irvin Wiley, professor of history at Emory University and one of the foremost authorities in the field, sketches the course of the Confederacy's decline and reappraises the influences leading to its defeat. The first chapter, devoted to Jefferson Davis, has been pronounced by a top student of the period as the most concise and best balanced evaluation of the Confederate president ever to appear in print. Another chapter traces the decline of public morale in the Confederacy from its dizzy heights of the war's first months to the hopeless depths of the last dreary winter. The final chapter points up the internal influences that impeded the South's effort to establish its independence and, in the author's view, ultimately did as much, if not more than external forces to defeat that effort. The deficiency which the author considers most crippling and to which he devotes most attention is disharmony. He attributes the quarrelsomeness to exaggerated individualism deriving from the South's way of life, frustration, habit acquired from denouncing the Yankees, and a sense of guilt about slavery. Among the book's illustrations is a diagram designed by the author representing graphically the course of Confederate morale.''

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the specific copy you purchased!

Details

Bookseller
The Bookworm US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
064904
Title
The Road to Appomattox.
Author
Willey, Bell Irvin
Format/Binding
Hardbound
Book Condition
Used - BINDING/CONDITION: light turquoise cloth; a mended tear on the front free endpaper; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jack
Edition
1st Edition.
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Memphis State College Press
Place of Publication
Memphis, Tennessee:
Date Published
1956.
Pages
121 pages.
Size
8vo (8.75 inches tall)

Terms of Sale

The Bookworm

Books over two pounds being sent by Priority Mail will be shipped at cost. International shipments are at cost. We use flat rate envelopes when possible. Return for refund if not satisfied.

About the Seller

The Bookworm

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Biblio member since 2003
Oroville, California

About The Bookworm

We are a small town bookstore, in the same location for over fifteen years. We strive to maintain a wide selection of books in lower price ranges.

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Blurb
The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...

Frequently asked questions

This Book’s Categories

tracking-