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America’s foremost Civil War historian in his final, most personal work. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton distills a lifetime of scholarship into an intimate meditation — not on strategy or politics, but on what the war felt like from the inside. John Leekley, whose landmark CBS miniseries The Blue and the Gray drew directly on Catton’s historical research, edited this posthumously published volume.

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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY A Novel by John Leekley Historical Consultant: Bruce Catton 

A sweeping epic of two families caught up in the fury of the Civil War. The bond of blood made them a family. War made them enemies.

Seen through the eyes of John Geyser, artist and war correspondent, the story spans six years of history from John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

The companion novel to John Leekley’s landmark CBS miniseries. A New York Times Bestseller.

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MOMENTS: THE PULITZER PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHS Sheryle & John Leekley Crown Publishers · Updated Edition 1942–1982 Foreword by Dan Rather

Each image pinpoints and captures in a startling way the intersection of lifelines — of the photographer and the people whose lives and deaths were recorded on film. Moments is a tapestry of images and words, a subtle weaving together of the powerful photographs and the authors’ compelling narratives.

Sheryle and John Leekley interviewed each of the Pulitzer Prize photographers and exhaustively researched the story behind the moment — the setting, the background, and the significance of the event in the context of the times.

Here are moments upon which our history turned. The Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima. The shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. Castro’s victory in Cuba. The napalmed Vietnamese children running and screaming down the road. The girl crying out in anguish at Kent State. The shooting of James Meredith in Mississippi and the birth of Black Power. The Islamic revolution in Iran. The attempted assassination of President Reagan. These frozen moments have been etched into the minds and hearts of everyone.

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“A remarkable book. Searing…dramatic…heartbreaking. A mini-history of the past forty years, the touchstones in our lives.” — Tom Brokaw, Today Show

“Frames from the storyboard of an animated nightmare…interconnected, coherent moral visions passed from one Pulitzer jury to the next.” — New York Times Book Review

“Study them if you would know a little more about history, about your times, and perhaps about yourself.” — Dan Rather