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Stanley Weintraub Publishes Yet Another Book

December 18, 2009 at 5:33 pm Lori Shontz Leave a comment

You might remember our story a few years back on retired Evan Pugh professor of English Stanley Weintraub ’56g, who has written books at an astonishing rate for decades. He’s at well over 50 books, and retirement hasn’t slowed him at all.

He’s got a new one coming out that’s themed perfectly for the season: “Sherman’s Christmas: Savannah 1864.”  It is, believe it or not, his fourth book centering on what The Providence Journal reviewer called “the intersection of war and the birthday of the Price of Peace.” That is, war and Christmas.

This one recounts the tale surrounding Gen. William T. Sherman’s message to President Abraham Lincoln on Dec. 22, 1964: “I beg to present to you as a Christmas-gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.”

You can read another review of the book here, and a feature on Weintraub and the book here. It’s arrived just in time for us last-minute shoppers who have history buffs on their shopping lists.

Lori Shontz, senior editor

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