RaveLondon Review of BooksThe March brilliantly revises the received view of Sherman, and recovers the full complexity of this pivotal event. It does so, in part, by showing that there were limits to Sherman’s destructiveness ... Doctorow also shows that Sherman tried not only to destroy the old South, but also to create the new. He dramatizes something that tends to be forgotten: the march of the freed slaves which followed the march of the soldiers ... [Doctorow] reminds us that the great tragedy of Sherman’s march may lie not in what he destroyed, but in what he failed to create.
