Books on the American Civil War?

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Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson is seen as the best introductory one-volume work on it, and is required reading for any historian (amateur or not) of the ACW. There's also The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 concerning the buildup to the ACW.

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The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674013662/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=prikeypre-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0674013662) by Heather Cox Richardson

Karl Marx on America & the Civil War (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OFHAS6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=prikeypre-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000OFHAS6)