5/18/2023 0 Comments Liar temptress soldier spy summary![]() ![]() Her gift for adaptation is clear in her title, a steal of John le Carre’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” which she apes down to its lack of serial punctuation. Her few-hundred sources include Drew Gilpin Faust’s landmark “This Republic of Suffering” (reviewed here in 2008), summarizing just one of its theses in a single paragraph and never citing it again. She scanned everything from Emma Edmondson’s pension file to Shelby Foote’s three-volume classic, “The Civil War,” touching every base in passing and gleaning at least a grain from every field. ![]() ![]() Abbott’s high achievement lies in her Augean compilation of published and archival material her 13-page bibliography embraces the entire conflict. ![]()
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