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On Hallowed Ground
Robert M. Poole
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Description for On Hallowed Ground
Paperback. "This engaging history of Arlington National Cemetery .. is also the story of America's maturation through death and war .. An editor and journalist, [Poole] is an adroit sketcher of historical events, but even more of character."-Economist Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBW; JWTY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 366.
Created at the end of the Civil War, Arlington National Cemetery has become a part of the landscape as fixed in the national imagination as the White House or the Capitol building. The mansion at Arlington's heart, and the rolling hills on which it sits, had been the family plantation of Robert E. Lee before he joined the Confederacy; strategic to the defense of Washington, Arlington became a Union encampment, a haven for freedmen, and a pauper's cemetery for soldiers dying in the nation's bloodiest conflict. With the passage of time, new layers of meaning were added to Arlington, which ... Read more
Created at the end of the Civil War, Arlington National Cemetery has become a part of the landscape as fixed in the national imagination as the White House or the Capitol building. The mansion at Arlington's heart, and the rolling hills on which it sits, had been the family plantation of Robert E. Lee before he joined the Confederacy; strategic to the defense of Washington, Arlington became a Union encampment, a haven for freedmen, and a pauper's cemetery for soldiers dying in the nation's bloodiest conflict. With the passage of time, new layers of meaning were added to Arlington, which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780802715494
SKU
V9780802715494
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About Robert M. Poole
Robert M. Poole is an editor and writer whose assignments for Smithsonian and National Geographic have taken him around the world. He is the author of Explorers House:National Georgraphic and the World It Made, and is a contributing editor at Smithsonian. Poole has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Preservation.
Reviews for On Hallowed Ground
Vivid, compelling, filled with rich and unexpected detail. Geoffrey C. Ward, author of The Civil War Gripping and often deeply moving, On Hallowed Ground chronicles both the evolution of our national cemetery and the profound ways in which treatment of the war dead reflects a nation's soul. Caroline Alexander, author of The Endurance A memorable combination of historical research, firsthand ... Read more