The Most Fearful Ordeal : Original Coverage of the Civil War by Writers and Reporters of The New York Times

Rating:
Summary: New York Times, yes: McPherson, no.
Review: While the excerpts from the New York Times are valuable and instructive in themselves, this book is disappointing for what it does not have--any valuable input from McPherson. He adds about one paragraph at the beginning of each chapter, information summing up the war at that period, available in any encyclopedia. The Times text is totally un-annotated. There are no notes to identify individuals mentioned in the reports or the reporters who sometimes left their initials at the end of their text. Anyone interested in how the war was covered is left searching other sources for information.