Tag: the definitive illustrated history
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Book Controversy
It begins like this: Gettysburg Battlefield: The Definitive Illustrated History, by David J. Eicher (Chronicle Books, 2003), with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. James M. McPherson, is a 296-page, coffee table-sized book that was billed as “the ultimate pictorial Civil War record.”Instead, Eicher’s book became hopelessly mired in a photo-piracy scandal that eventually […]