Critical Praise

"A pitch-perfect rendering mesmerizing and assiduously researched."

——The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A stately and elegant historical novel of classic proportions."

——The Los Angeles Times

"Scene by scene the powerful story is superbly told . . . You can't ask for much more from historical fiction except, perhaps, the validity of the material as history. Henry and Clara passes that test with flying colors, too . . . I know of no novel that treats the [Civil War] period in the North more effectively than this."

——George Garrett, Washington Post Book World

""[Thomas Mallon is] one of the most interesting American novelists at work."

——John Updike, The New Yorker