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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20061203
Author:Michael Kenney reviews regularly for the; Michael Kenney

NONFICTION

In 1862, when the Civil War was going badly for the Union, Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to the White House to meet with President Lincoln, who greeted her with the now-famous words "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."

Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," published in 1852 - and a runaway bestseller in its day - had indeed fueled the growing anger over slavery that led to the war.

In a contrary fashion, the notable nonfiction books of 2006 include several that, by detailing the military and political miscues that have marked the conduct of the war in ...

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