Books written by Richard Moe
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
Joseph Spencer sent his sister this doggerel: First twas foggy, then it blew, then twas cloudy, then it Snew, then it friz, and then it thew, then it rained till all was blue, then the way the Mud did flew, or Slip into our low top't ...
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Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War
5 No new plausible candidates had emerged, FDR's indecision still serving to freeze the field, although some speculation centered on the populistisolationist senator from Montana, Burton Wheeler. Wheeler had been the first prominent ...
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
The definitive history of the First Minnesota Regiment and one of a handful of classic regimental histories of the Civil War.
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
As James MacGregor Burns notes in his foreword to the book, 'Like Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' this work sticks close to the men in battle, and hence, like Tolstoy, the author keeps close to the human size of war.
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Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
In Changing Places, authors Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie give examples of how America's embattled towns are defing themselves against corporate giants and depressed economies, from community activists restoring pride in their innercities ...
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Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War
Discusses President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to defy one hundred fifty years of tradition and seek a third term in office.
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
This is the story of the Army of the Potomac during that period: the initial enthusiasm dashed by sudden defeat at Bull Run; the pride at being shaped into an army by George McClellan and the frustration with his--and his successors'- ...