E.L. Doctorow Ragtimes The U.S. Civil War

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Robert Cohen - 27 Sep 2005 14:09 GMT

My comment: History as fiction doesn't perplex me; but it does confuse
me, though what doesn't?

www.nytimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/books/27doct.html

Using History as a Guide, But Skipping the Details

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By JANET MASLIN
Published: September 27, 2005
One of the most poignant passages in E. L. Doctorow's new novel "The
March" quotes a letter of condolence from Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
to Gen. William J. Hardee after Hardee, like Sherman, lost a son named
Willie. "How unnatural is this age when, in violation of God's grand
stratagem, the young are unbodied of their souls before the old,"
Sherman writes.

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This ought to attest to the acuity

(entire one page review is at ny times website)

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Pjk - 27 Sep 2005 16:20 GMT

> My comment: History as fiction doesn't perplex me; but it does confuse
> me, though what doesn't?
>
> www.nytimes.com
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/books/27doct.html

I'm tempted. I Liked all of E.L.'s books up until Waterworks where he
seemed to have run out of stream. Every other book was interestin
because of his descriptive powers. I'll probably tae this out of the
library.

Pjk

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