The Bonfire, Marc Wortman
The Bonfire, Marc Wortman
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The Bonfire
The Siege and Burning of Atlanta

Author: Marc Wortman

Narrator: Anthony Heald

Unabridged: 16 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/17/2009

Synopsis

The destruction of Atlanta is an iconic moment in American historyit was the centerpiece of the hugely successful book and movie Gone with the Wind. But though the epic sieges of Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Berlin have all been explored in bestselling histories, the one great American example has been treated only cursorily as a footnote. Marc Wortman remedies that conspicuous absence in grand fashion with The Bonfire, an absorbing narrative history told through the points of view of key participants, both Confederate and Union.

About Marc Wortman

Marc Wortman is an award-winning freelance writer whose work has appeared in numerous national magazines. He was a senior editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine. He also taught literature and writing at Princeton University and in a college program for inmates at Rahway State Prison in New Jersey. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife and daughter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Teechbiz

I learned a great deal about Atlanta and the famous march.......more

Goodreads review by Alger

For all the hype, very underwhelming. This is a wordy book, and a lengthy book, and it isn't just one book, it's two. Book one is a biography of James Calhoun, a rags-to-riches scion of the South Carolina Calhouns, that awful family that killed lots of natives, stole their land under dubious circumst......more

Goodreads review by Jocelyn

I have read dozens of books on Civil War Atlanta as I researched and wrote my novel, Yankee in Atlanta. The Bonfire, by Marc Wortman tops them all. This masterful work is distinguished by its spellbinding narrative, comprehensive context, and critical but lesser-known history surrounding the Atlanta......more

Goodreads review by Delway

As a native of Atlanta, I have often wondered why my home was different from all other southern cities. It has no natural resources, it is not on a body of water, it had no manufacturing base, yet from its founding in 1841 (the Cherokees and Creeks were expelled 1838), it had grown into the key to a......more

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