![]() ![]() The plantation’s owners, John and Mattie Jameson, are already gone, having fled to Savannah. In the first scene, Sherman’s troops are burning Fieldstone, a plantation in Georgia, to the ground, and looting the house’s contents. The book opens in late 1864 to a scene demonstrating Sherman’s “total war” strategy that targeted Southern plantations and entire cities as well as Confederate soldiers on the battlefield. Critics, editors, and librarians alike have called Doctorow one of the most significant American novelists of the 20th century. ![]() His other notable works include Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The Book of Daniel. The novel comes near the end of Doctorow’s celebrated career as a writer of historical fiction. Doctorow tells the story through multiple small vignettes from a multitude of characters, all of whom revolve in some way around Sherman and the strategic decisions he makes. Doctorow, is a 2005 historical fiction novel about General Sherman and his march through the South near the end of the American Civil War. ![]()
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