Pickett's Charge in History and Memory

Carol Reardon is associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University.

"A fresh look at the disastrous assault." - New Yorker; "A splendidly lively study of the manipulation, not necessarily deliberate or malign, of public opinion." - Atlantic Monthly; "Exceptionally lucid.... This fine book provides vivid evidence of just how far we will go to alchemize fantasy into fact." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post; "Pickett's Charge in History and Memory utilizes first-rate scholarship to tell a fascinating story.... Should win a wide audience among general readers." - Civil War History