January 11, 2008

Dead Reckoning

By EDWARD L. AYERS

Drew Gilpin Faust confronts the grisly realities of tallying, tidying, and mourning the Civil War fallen

Long before she became the first female president of Harvard University in July 2007, Drew Gilpin Faust showed herself to be an inventive, energetic, and restless historian. Her first book, in 1977, focused on a subject many people had doubted was a subject, "the intellectual in the Old South." Five years later, she produced what is still the fullest — and most

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