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LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. "The Beast"—Benjamin Butler—was one of the Civil War's toughest Northern generals. He earned Southerners' undying hatred as the governor of occupied New Orleans, became a fervent champion of liberal causes during the Reconstruction. West succeeds admirably in separating an unusual man from the usually accepted image of the Beast.
THE GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. Author Ogburn (The Marauders fills a rousing novel with high adventure and lusty characters, but is himself possessed—and possesses readers—by the grandeur and savagery of the Amazon.
PRETTY TALES FOR TIRED PEOPLE, by Martha Gellhorn. In three long short stories set in the weary world of Continental society, people manipulate friends as well as cards to shake their boredom. In both games there is always a loser, but in worldly collapse each of Gellhorn's failures finds the clue to moral regeneration.
THE ORDWAYS, by William Humphrey. With rich, wry Southern recall, Novelist Humphrey (Home from the Hill) retraces a family's oddball odyssey from post-Civil War Tennessee to East Texas and down to the Mexican border, marking every mile with fond and funny bouquets.
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