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WAR TRANSFORMED WRITER'S IDEALISM INTO DISILLUSIONMENT.(Spotlight)(Review)

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From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Date: 19960407
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Byline: Robert Taylor

Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company

By Roy Morris Jr. Crown. 306 pages. $30.

His biographers agree: The Civil War was the pivotal experience of Ambrose Bierce's life. No other writer saw more terrible combat, demonstrated more valor, was more affected by protracted encounters with death, blood and fear.

If you want to know how the Civil War felt from the inside, then, presumably, you'll find out in Bierce's writings. Yet, as Roy Morris Jr.'s highly readable and carefully researched biography suggests, this is true only in part.

Bierce ...

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