| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

A Single Grand Victory: The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas. By Ethan S. Rafuse. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2002. xvi, 226 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8420-2875-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8420-2876-5.)

Ethan S. Rafuse's book on the campaign and battle of First Manassas, or First Bull Run, is the seventh volume of the American Crisis series produced by Scholarly Resources. The purpose of the series, in the words of its editor, Steven E. Woodworth, is to offer "concise overviews of important persons, events, and themes" of the Civil War.

Rafuse's goal in this volume was to offer the reader "a thorough and engrossing narrative" of the first major campaign in the Virginia theater of operations. He wanted also to explain the campaign clearly, and he intended his audience to be undergraduates and the interested layperson. Rafuse sought to combine traditional military history—the study of strategy and tactics—with information on how the campaign intersected with the political course of the war.

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