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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
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He has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, and taught World Literature for two years at Sophia University in Tokyo.
Charles Bracelen Flood is a past president of the American Center of PEN, the international writers’ organization, and has served on the governing bodies of the Authors League and Authors Guild. The author of this engaging dual biography doesn't claim this friendship "won the Civil War," but it made...READ FULL REVIEW
1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History
Charles Bracelen Flood, Author Simon & Schuster $30 (544p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5228-4
Critically acclaimed historian Flood (Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War) provides a brilliant, compelling account of Lincoln's dramatic final full year of life-a year in which the war finally turned in the Union's favor and...
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Hitler, the Path to Power: The Path to Power
Charles Bracelen Flood, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (686p) ISBN 978-0-395-35312-7
A highly readable account of a period many consider the most interesting of Hitler's tumultuous life, Flood's ( Lee: The Last Years ) book covers the years of political apprenticeship through the abortive Munich putsch , the months in prison and the
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Hitler Pa
Charles Bracelen Flood, Author Mariner Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-53845-6
``A highly readable account of a period many consider to be the most interesting of Hitler's tumultuous life, Flood's ( Lee: The Last Years ) book covers the years of political apprenticeship through the abortive Munich putsch , the months in prison
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Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S.
Grant's Heroic Last Year
Charles Bracelen Flood. All his books have also appeared in paperback.
Flood’s first venture into the Civil War era was Lee - The Last Years, which was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and won the Colonial Dames of America Annual Book Award. Lee was followed by Grant and Sherman - The Friendship That Won the Civil War, a work that the Washington Post described as “beautifully defined and explored…a powerful and illuminating study of the military collaboration that won the war for the Union.” Salon.com named it as one of the ”Top 12 Civil War Books Ever Written.” Of his 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History, published in 2009, Lincoln’s Bicentennial Year, Kent Masterson Brown, author of Retreat from Gettysburg, said, “Lincoln walks off the pages as in no other book,” and in the New York Times Janet Maslin wrote, “Mr.
Charles Bracelen Flood was born in Manhatten, NY, USA.
Charles Bracelen Flood has published 13 Non-Fiction Books. He and his wife Katherine Burnam Flood live in Richmond, Kentucky, in that state’s Bluegrass region....more
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Charles Bracelen Flood
Born
in New York, N.Y., The United StatesNovember 14, 1929
Died
August 15, 2014
Website
http://charlesbracelenflood.com/
Genre
Fiction, Journalism, History
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Charles Bracelen Flood was born in Manhattan, and graduated from Harvard, where he was a member of Archibald MacLeish’s noted creative writing seminar, English S, and was on the literary board of the Harvard Lampoon.
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Charles Bracelen Flood: F.A.Q
When was Charles Bracelen Flood Born?
Charles Bracelen Flood was born on November 14th, 1929.
When did Charles Bracelen Flood die?
Charles Bracelen Flood died on August 15th, 2014 at 84 years old.
Where was Charles Bracelen Flood Born?
Charles Bracelen Flood was born in Manhatten, NY, USA.
What was the first book Charles Bracelen Flood wrote?
The first book written by Charles Bracelen Flood was A Distant Drum, published in 1957.
What was the most recent book Charles Bracelen Flood wrote?
His most recently released work was First to Fly on June 2nd, 2015.
How many books has Charles Bracelen Flood written?
Charles Bracelen Flood has written 13 books.
(In 2001, Flood was honored with the Lampoon’s Clem Wood Award; past recipients have included George Plimpton, John Updike, and Conan O’Brien.)
Love is a Bridge, Flood’s first novel, received nationwide critical attention, and was on the New York Times Bestseller list for 26 weeks. The twelve books he has written include the novels A Distant Drum and More Lives Than One.
Praising Flood’s The War of the Innocents, his account of his year spent in Vietnam as a correspondent, JCharles Bracelen Flood was born in Manhattan, and graduated from Harvard, where he was a member of Archibald MacLeish’s noted creative writing seminar, English S, and was on the literary board of the Harvard Lampoon. HarperAudio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-085741-7
This dual biography of the Union's most celebrated Civil War generals, Ulysses S.
Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, examines the partnership that effectively ended the worst bloodshed in American history.
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Charles Bracelen Flood
Charles Bracelen Flood was born on November 14th, 1929. It won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award.
It won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Floods versatility is impressive …1864 compresses the multiple demands upon Lincoln into a tight time frame and thus captures a dizzying, visceral sense of why this single year took such a heavy toll.”
This writer’s short pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and other magazines, and a number of his books have been translated into foreign languages.
Flood’s journalistic experiences have taken him to many countries, including being a reporter for the Associated Press at the Olympics held in Melbourne, Rome, Tokyo and Mexico City. The first was released in 1957 with the book A Distant Drum. (In 2001, Flood was honored with the Lampoon’s Clem Wood Award; past recipients have included George Plimpton, John Updike, and Conan O’Brien.)
Love is a Bridge, Flood’s first novel, received nationwide critical attention, and was on the New York Times Bestseller list for 26 weeks.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (480p) ISBN 978-0-374-16600-7
Nodding acquaintances at West Point, Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman met again in 1862 and liked each other immediately. The twelve books he has written include the novels A Distant Drum and More Lives Than One. Praising Flood’s The War of the Innocents, his account of his year spent in Vietnam as a correspondent, John Updike said of him, “This brave and compassionate reporter’s account of a year spent with our armed forces in Vietnam tells more of the physical actualities and moral complexities of the American involvement than any other book I have read.” Flood’s Rise, and Fight Again won the American Revolution Round Table Annual Award for 1976, the Bicentennial Year, and his Hitler - The Path to Power, a History Book Club selection, was among the successful studies in history and biography that followed.
All of his books are Non-Fiction Books.
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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
Charles Bracelen Flood, Author .
Da Capo, $27.50 (284p) ISBN 978-0-306-82028-1
In 1884, the ex-president and ex-Union commander Ulysses S. Grant became bankrupt, having trusted his money to swindlers; soon after, he felt the first agonizing throat pain from the cancer that would kill him. Charles passed away August 15th, 2014 at 84 years old.