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If andersonville wasnt a horrorshow, a blight during an unholy time, i dont know what was. Sep 05, 2014 decades later, author mackinlay kantor put together about 25 years of research in order to write the most complete novel he could about the prison. The greatest of our civil war novels new york times reissued for a new generation as the united states prepares to commemorate the civil wars 150th anniversary, plume reissues the pulitzer prizewinning novel widely regarded as the most powerful ever written about our nations bloodiest conflict. Oct 12, 1977 according to a pat anecdote, the seminal event in mackinlay kantor s life came when he was 10 years old and a salesman left sample pages from a civil war encyclopedia at his home in webster city. Andersonville is a novel by mackinlay kantor concerning the confederate prisoner of war. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the american civil war, and was awarded the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel andersonville kantor was born in webster city, iowa, in 1904.
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