{"title":"MacKinlay Kantor","description":"MacKinlay Kantor was born in Webster City, Iowa, in 1904. He began to write seriously at sixteen, became a newspaper reporter at seventeen, and published his first book at twenty-three. Over the next half-century, he went on to produce more than forty works including novels, short story collections, novels in verse, novellas, histories and children's books. His best-selling historical novel, Andersonville, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956. MacKinlay Kantor's other accomplishments included Hollywood screenwriting, patrolling the streets with the N.Y.P.D., and combat experience (RAF and USAF) in two wars, for which he was awarded the Medal of Freedom.","products":[{"product_id":"glory-for-me-paperback","title":"Glory for Me - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eMACKINLAY KANTOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGLORY FOR ME\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Novel in Verse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy MacKinlay Kantor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASIS FOR THE MOVIE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is seldom in time of war that an author, no matter how emotionally aware of what it all means, can write a book which expresses the feeling that motivates fighting men. Why did it happen this way, why is it ending this way- what are we now that it is done with, now that we are home? Indeed, are we home, or are we in a boarding-house of confusion and wretchedly defeated purposes and understandings?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMacKinlay Kantor is one of America's best-known novelists. It might be said that if any author could write that book Kantor would be the one for the job, but it takes more than mere professional writing skill to achieve such a major accomplishment. It takes awareness born of action and danger and keenly felt knowledge. Such knowledge MacKinlay Kantor has found, and in his novel of war and its men, Glory for Me, he has wholly expressed it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell above the draft age, and physically unacceptable to the armed forces, Kantor intensely felt the need to join his younger fellows in some way; in some way he had to be a part of the danger, the horror, the glory of this war. He found his opportunity as a war correspondent. As such, based in England, he flew in combat with the U. S. Air Forces and the R.A.F. over enemy territory into flak and fire. As such he learned to know the fighting men whose constant companion, friend and fellow-in-war he was for many months. For the equivalent of a leave Kantor came back to the United States, and what filled his mind and his heart and his thoughts had to find expression in a book, which is Glory for Me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlory for Me is a simple novel-about three service men, honorably discharged for medical causes, who return home to the same town where in peacetime they had not known one another. 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MacKinlay Kantor's \u003ci\u003eAndersonville\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the notorious Confederate Prisoner of War camp, where fifty thousand Union soldiers were held captive--and fourteen thousand died--under inhumane conditions. This new edition will be widely read and talked about by Civil War buffs and readers of gripping historical fiction.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369138716895,"sku":"9780147515377","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/LIyJgeV8Q49780147515377.webp?v=1789139228"},{"product_id":"if-the-south-had-won-the-civil-war-paperback","title":"If the South Had Won the Civil War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Past is a strange place indeed . . . everything could have been so different so easily.\u003cbr\u003eJust a touch here and a tweak there . . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer Price-winning author and master storyteller, shows us how the South could have won the Civil War: how two small shifts in history (as we know it) in the summer of 1863 could have turned the tide for the Confederacy. 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