Product Description From preeminent American Historian James McPherson comes Battle Cry of Freedom-the Pulitzer Prize-winning, definitive history of the civil war-together for the first time with McPherson's short biography Abraham Lincoln. Own the most readable and comprehensive volumes on the Civil War available today! About the Author James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He has published numerous volumes on the Civil War, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, Crossroads of Freedom (which was a New York Times bestseller), Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, which won the Lincoln Prize.