Veterans who had fought in it-appeared in 1923. Where his first published work on the Civil War-a series on local In 1920 Catton got a job with the old Cleveland News, and worked briefly for the Boston American before landing a position with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Out the more down-to-earth world of journalism. War I, along with his own talent for storytelling, that led him to seek But it may have been his own stint in the Navy during World Those desperate battles he was later to read as a student at OberlinĬollege near Cleveland were pallid in comparison with those grippingĪccounts. Memories of a simpler and-more heroic-time still lived lightly on theĮvening air in an unbroken continuity with the past.) The accounts of (His engaging 1972 autobiography, Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood,Ĭaptures both the wonder and nostalgia of those years, when vivid Turned historian, Bruce Catton produced some of the most readable andĬompelling books about the American Civil War ever written.Ĭombining “a scholar’s appreciation of the Grand Design with a newsman’s keenness for meaningful vignette,” wrote Newsweek on the author’s death in 1978, “Catton created an ‘enlisted man’s-eye view’ of the war that treated humanely the errors on both sides.”Ī boy growing up in Petoskey, Michigan, in the first decade of the 20thĬentury, Catton had listened to the stories of old men who had actuallyįought in that bitter conflict.
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