The authors, Winberg Chai and his daughter May-lee, examine the life of Wingerg's mother, Ruth, in an attempt to understand her secret decision to be buried alone instead of in the shared plots she and her husband had bought together years before.
When Douglas Southall Freeman's original three-volume version of Lee's Lieutenants appeared in the 1940s, it marked a high point in Civil War history, and the books were lauded not only for their scholarship but for their elegant writing. This monument of Civil War literature has been skillfully abridged by one of the most noted present-day Civil War historians, Stephen W. Sears. The new one-volume abridgement retains the core material of the original and makes Freeman's fine writing available in a much more accessible format.
This affectionate memoir of family, teachers, neighbors, and friends, of growing up Catholic in the Chicago of the '30s and '40s, is spirited and tender, funny and warm - and hard to put down.
She lived in a cabin on a small piece of land that juts out into the Madawaska River near Comermere, Ontario. From there she shares her vision of the place of the Church in the world today.
