Days of Destiny Crossroads in American History America's Greatest Historians Examine Thirty-One Uncelebrated Days That Changed the Course of History

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1962. He is the author of a dozen books, mostly on the era of the American Civil War. His Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1989, and his For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War won the Lincoln Prize in 1998. Alan Brinkley is Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1991. His works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (1982), which won the National Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (1993); The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (1998).McPherson, James M. is the author of 'Days of Destiny Crossroads in American History America's Greatest Historians Examine Thirty-One Uncelebrated Days That Changed the Course of History', published 2001 under ISBN 9780789480101 and ISBN 0789480107.