Best Selling Books by Mackinlay Kantor

“The greatest of our Civil War novels” (New York Times) reissued for a new generation As the United States prepares to commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary, Plume reissues the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel widely regarded as the most powerful ever written about our nation’s bloodiest conflict. MacKinlay Kantor’s Andersonville 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.

If the South Had Won the Civil War originally appeared in the November 22, 1960, issue of Look magazine where it inspired a deluge of correspondence from readers. Published in book form in 1961, the novel is a must-have for Civil War enthusiasts. Out of print for over a decade, MacKinlay Kantor''s classic Civil War novel is back, featuring a brand new introduction by Harry Turtledove (author of the bestselling The Guns of the South), new interior art by Dan Nance, and a stunning cover by acclaimed Civil War artist Don Troiani. This new edition also includes a hard-to-find essay by Kantor describing how and why the novel was written, and the nation''s reaction to its publication. MacKinlay Kantor was superbly equipped to write this fascinating account of what might have happened, beginning on the fateful afternoon of Tuesday, May 12, 1863, when a deplorable equestrian accident resulted in the death of General Ulysses S. Grant.

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville GLORY FOR ME A Novel in Verse By MacKinlay Kantor BASIS FOR THE MOVIE THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES It is seldom in time of war that an auu00adthor, no matter how emotionally aware of what it all means, can write a book which expresses the feeling that motiu00advates 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? MacKinlay Kantor is one of Ameru00adica''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 knowlu00adedge MacKinlay Kantor has found, and in his novel of war and its men, Glory for Me, he has wholly expressed it. Well above the draft age, and physiu00adcally 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 Engu00adland, 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. Glory for Me is a simple novel—about three service men, honorably disu00adcharged for medical causes, who reu00adturn home to the same town where in peacetime they had not known one anu00adother. Now they know one another, and through them we know them and their town and our country and war and peace and man. Glory for Me is a national epic, told in language of the common man, in language of the poet: told as only an American could tell it.

When troops entered Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the South seemed to be winning the Civil War. But Gettysburg was a turning point. After three bloody days of fighting, the Union finally won the battle. Inspired by the valor of the many thousands of soldiers who died there, President Lincoln visited Gettysburg to give a brief but moving tribute. His Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches in American history.

This is the story of three strange companions who attain what seldom has been won by any escaping prisoners. Two Yankee soldiers escape from Belle Island, the Confederate Prison, in 1864. As they make their way northward to the Union lines on the Rapidan they are joined by a woman who is fleeing from Richmond. The hazards of their painful flight are tremendous as they travel by night on roads as ominous as the incredible future awaiting them. Starvation and feasting, the swift beat of love, the primitive encounter, the hot cry of triumph—these elements are combined in this bold and valiant tale of sacrifice and high devotion. Arouse and Beware, first published in 1936, was widely praised by the critics and became a best seller. Now with the success of MacKinlay Kantor''s great novel, Andersonville, and the enormous interest in the Civil War period, it is being re-issued again to be enjoyed by a whole new generation of readers.

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville GOD AND MY COUNTRY A Novel By MacKinlay Kantor BASIS FOR THE MOVIE FOLLOW ME, BOYS MacKinlay Kantor, the master of the warm and human story, the writer who can make us believe the good in the worst of us, has woven a compelling, appealing novel about the life of a simple American man who held in his care the destinies of hundreds of boys. Here for the first time a major writer portrays the Scoutmaster in a small town in a role as vital as the greatest of schoolmasters, doctors, priests, or ministers. With rare insight and symu00adpathy, MacKinlay Kantor has created the memorable Lem Siddons, who gave forty years of his wisdom, the fund of his laughter, the knowledgeable touch, the sweetness and love that were his, to generations of Boy Scouts. Not every boy who passed khaki-clothed along his life won the world''s respect or the Scoutu00admaster''s pride. There were some misfits, fallers-by-the-wayside . . . sure. But Lem Siddons knew his reward every waking moment of his life and in his dreams as well. His story is one you will remember as that of the closest of your friends: his love for the delicate and freckled Vida that grew with a lifetime, his son Downey who wanted to crowd the years. All the good Kantor writing is here, the lucid and homespun prose that makes tears well in your eyes even as a song rises in your heart. MacKinlay Kantor has set the scene for God and My Country in a small town very much like Webster City, Iowa, where he was born, and has dedicated the book to his Scoutmaster of those days. It is a perfect example of MacKinlay Kantor''s special genius for capturing the full flavor of a small American town, and of its people. "There''s a Mr. Chips'' quality to this deceptively simple story. MacKinlay Kantor has told quietly, in realistic terms, the story of one man whose inu00adfluence permeate a whole Iowa town and rural area. No drum heating for the American vision here, but true democracy emerges in boys at every social and human level. A microcosm of America that strengthens one''s faith."—Virginia Kirkus "God and My Country is a song from the heart of America which I would love to sing."—Burl Ives

Basis for the film Hannah Lee: An American Primitive MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville “Well,” Montgomery challenged him, “how many people have you killed?” The young man stopped laughing. His face turned into black stone. "Sixty-seven." To Western cattle barons in 1899 the encroaching homesteaders were like cinders eyes. But they were legal. Even the rustlers among them seldom were brought to justice for lack of evidence. There seemed to be only one way to pry loose those on the land, and discourage others from settling: scare them off. To do just that some of the ranchers met in Pearl City in secret conclave. They agreed to hire the most notorious professional killer then known—Bus Crow. They figured that a small dose of Bus Crow would quickly clear the ranges, and keep them clear. WICKED WATER is the story of the bloody descent of Bus Crow on the homesteaders of Pearl County. It is the story, too, of the woman who loved him in spite of herself, who bowed to justice in spite of her love. Against a background of driving action, MacKinlay Kantor probes the mysteries of a killer''s mind, of the dark rebellion that made him cry: I''ll always kill. I’ll shoot them down ... get a gun and keep killing and killing. A NOVEL ABOUT A KILLER—BY THE AUTHOR OF MIDNIGHT LACE & GENTLE ANNIE

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville VALLEY FORGE Poignant, tender, and powerful, VALLEY FORGE brings into sharp new focus one of the most tensely dramatic episodes of the American Revolution. With warmth and wit, compassion and sensitivity, MacKinlay Kantor evokes the flavor, pulse and texture of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, transporting the reader into the houses and workshops, kitchens and stables, parlors and bedrooms of ordinary citizens. Here are not only the soldiers of Valley Forge, but the panorama of the Revolution itself. George Washington, lamenting the remoteness and lack of valor in the Congress, anticipating new battle; the sprightly, good-humored Martha, always loyal and loving to a fault; the Marquis de Lafayette, whose poise and dignity belied his youth; Baron von Steuben whose halting English made the soldiers laugh, but whose fierce devotion won their respect. And the multitude—young Mum, a sixteen-year-old deserter savagely trampled by Tarleton''s Raiders; Malachi Lennan whose gift of a horse gained him entry into Mad Anthony Wayne''s Drovers; Billy, the turncoat, wailing for his mother as he was dragged to the gallows. Sons of farmers and tradesmen, trappers and teachers—some too young to fight, and some too old—surge through these pages, giving life, breath, scope and humanity to the American Revolution and the winter at Valley Forge. MacKINLAY KANTOR was born in Webster City, Iowa in 1904. He began to write seriously at sixteen, became a newspaper reporter at seventeen, and an author at twenty-three. Since his first-published novel in 1928, more than forty books have appeared in print, including verse, short stories, novellas, histories, and books for children. His best-selling, and Pulitzer Prize- winning Andersonville was published in 1955. MacKinlay Kantor''s other than book accomplishments range from Hollywood screenwriting to police patrolling (N. Y. P. D.), to combat experience (RAF and U.SAF) in two wars. VALLEY FORGE is grandly conceived, but the quality is equal to the concept. The climate of the war, its taste and smell and the harsh texture of its life, are evoked with mystery. Neither souped-up nor toned-down under fashionable pressures, this is an extraordinarily honest and human book. I am greatly impressed.—MARY RENAULT

Designed for young readers, this illustrated history recounts the events that led to the surrender of the Confederacy, and the personalities involved.

Long Remember is the first realistic novel about the Civil War. Originally published in the 1930s, and out of print sincer the 50s, this book received rave reviews from the NY Times Book Review, and was a main selection of the Literary Guild. It is the account of the Battle of Gettysburg, as viewed by a pacifist who comes to accept the nasty necessity of combat, and lives an intense and skewed romance along the way.

In The Children Sing MacKinlay Kantor-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Andersonville-ventures into the field of the parading mural, taking a colorful group of people through Eastern Asia into a crucible of challenge and excitement. Don Lundin and his wife, July, are in Bangkok with other members of Graduate Tours Incorporated. Lundin, a wealthy land speculator, had served with the U.S. Air Force in the bombing of Japan and also during the Korean War. He has harbored within himself an abusive hatred for the scrambling millions of the brown and yellow nations who are, to him, a disquieting threat. Despite the gentle example of Mr. Wye Rabarti Wong, a tour conductor who tends his flock with saintly fortitude, and Lundin''s rescue of a drowning child in Thailand, his prejudice persists. Meanwhile, his beautiful July meets in Singapore an officer who has long been seeking an opportunity to demonstrate his passion for her-and they meet again in a Kowloon hotel. Perhaps Chaucer was not the first writer to present a group of people on a pilgrimage, but resourceful authors have been gathering their throngs together in such pageantry ever since Chaucer''s time. The results, as far as MacKinlay Kantor is concerned, add up to a charming and memorable novel. The retired surgeon and his veteran actress wife; a quavering spinster clinging to false and profitless recollections; a quiet woman filled with death-dealing hatred for her bullying husband; the brave old Jew whose heart and soul are set on an intimate view of Mount Fuji-no-Yama; and the sign manufacturer drinking his life away even while he crouches at the Red Chinese border-we come to know these travelers and others intimately before we return to Japan with Don Lundin and see him overwhelmed by a startling revelation of his own past and a kinship with the East affirmed in the very flesh.

Set forth as a novel in plan and management, I love you, Irene bristles with intimate excitement of the first twenty-eight months the Kantors spent together.

"The Chicago underworld." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

Bugle Ann was a hunting dog, the pride and joy of an old Missouri sportsman who stoically, with no remorse, served a prison term for shooting the sheep man he believed had killed his dog.

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville The Twenty-Third Precinct of the New York City Police Department includes within its boundaries exalted penthouses and reeking slums. The story concerns three men in blue, their loves, their ambitions, their contentions-the cruelty they encounter, the courage they offer, the pity and aid they are able to give. It speeds through the reader''s consciousness like a patrol car wailing in midnight traffic. In 1948 the Acting Commissioner of Police, the late Tom Mulligan, authorized MacKinlay Kantor to proceed on all police activities, accompanying the patrolmen in their work. Kantor learned the life of a policeman through first-hand experience. Such priv-ilege had never been granted to a civilian before. But this civilian happened to be the author of Long Re-member, The Voice of Bugle Ann, and many other famous books, as well as the original story of the great motion picture, "The Best Years of Our Lives." Thunder of feet on sagging stairways; a yell from behind a locked door; tears and oaths and-worse- the stony agony of women who stare in silence... The radio voice of CB declares flatly: "Two-Three Precinct. The address...on the roof...proceed with caution..." Is it rape, suicide, assault? Or merely a kitten cry-ing from its trap in a drainpipe? Or do we meet the glare of a razor, the stab of gunfire in a hall? Our fingers squeeze the siren button. This is a Signal Thirty-two... A novel by MacKinlay Kantor Author of Arouse and Beware and Glory for Me

MACKINLAY KANTOR - Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville BIG as the sweeping plains, the towering mountains, the endless swamps . . . BIG AS THE FRONTIER Here are stories of the men and women who tamed the West in the rough and sinewy days that made America great . . . powerful stories packed with courage, humor and history.

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville She had bought many slaves, but none like Beauty Beast. From the moment she saw him—smooth, golden, powerful—she knew she had to own him... This rich, sensual novel of a woman''s forbidden love for a magnificent young slave brings to violent life the passion, the decadence, the savagery of the Old South. With masterly skill, MacKinlay Kantor unfolds the hidden lusts and secret dramas of men and women caught between two worlds—chained to their separate destinies by color and by chance. "This is the ante-bellum sex novel to end all ante-bellum sex novels."—Publishers'' Weekly

A moving collection of novels that explore the powers, passions, and politics of the War Between the States. Includes Michael Shaara''s Killer Angels, Stephen Crane''s Red Badge of Courage, and Mackinley Kantor''s Andersonville.

In The Children Sing MacKinlay Kantor—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Andersonville—ventures into the field of the parading mural, taking a colorful group of people through Eastern Asia into a crucible of challenge and excitement. Don Lundin and his wife, July, are in Bangkok with other members of Graduate Tours Incorporated. Lundin, a wealthy land speculator, had served with the U.S. Air Force in the bombing of Japan and also during the Korean War. He has harbored within himself an abusive hatred for the scrambling millions of the brown and yellow nations who are, to him, a disquieting threat. Despite the gentle example of Mr. Wye Rabarti Wong, a tour conductor who tends his flock with saintly fortitude, and Lundin''s rescue of a drowning child in Thailand, his prejudice persists. Meanwhile, his beautiful July meets in Singapore an officer who has long been seeking an opportunity to demonstrate his passion for her—and they meet again in a Kowloon hotel. Perhaps Chaucer was not the first writer to present a group of people on a pilgrimage, but resourceful authors have been gathering their throngs together in such pageantry ever since Chaucer''s time. The results, as far as MacKinlay Kantor is concerned, add up to a charming and memorable novel. The retired surgeon and his veteran actress wife; a quavering spinster clinging to false and profitless recollections; a quiet woman filled with death-dealing hatred for her bullying husband; the brave old Jew whose heart and soul are set on an intimate view of Mount Fuji-no-Yama; and the sign manufacturer drinking his life away even while he crouches at the Red Chinese border—we come to know these travelers and others intimately before we return to Japan with Don Lundin and see him overwhelmed by a startling revelation of his own past and a kinship with the East affirmed in the very flesh.

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville A FRONTIER NOVEL BY MACKINLAY KANTOR Two people rode into Pahoka City on the S. C. & W. passenger train that Sepu00adtember day. One of them was Rich Wilu00adliams, with grimy stubble on his cheeks; the brakeman shoved him off the blind baggage, and Rich strolled up the empty street to Kite''s Cafe and Cookson''s Bar. He looked like an ordinary bum, but he carried a gun that people couldn''t see; and he had a lot of money and papers strapped inside his shirt. The other passenger was a girl with high-piled hair and an Irish mouth. She descended timidly from the day coach; men looked at her ankles. Annie Lingen thought she knew where she would be spending the night, but there was a suru00adprise in store for her. A hundred other surprises await the readers of Gentle Annie. The blustering Tatums with their angry eyes; Lucian Barrow, the ragged photographer who specializes in pictures of dead outlaws; and, above all, the Goss family—the brothers Cot and Vi, and their strange, wild mother. This frontier novel roars like an Oklau00adhoma tornado. The punctuation is made with bullet-holes; a pageant of love and terror and reckless encounter springs from every page.

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville “What James Jones has done for the Army in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, Kantor does for the Air Force and their love affairs in the orient… Has a gripping interest.” —DALLAS TIMES HERALD They Lived Only For Today An unforgettable novel of the air war in Korea, the men of the 68th Bomb Group and the women who shared their lives behind the lines in Japan. Fraternizing between pilots and wives of men at the front was forbidden. But Korea was far away and every time a plane left on a mission no one knew if it would return . . . and some women got lonely. Between missions the men were lonely, too. Many took refuge in geisha houses. Major Gregory Wolford found Tony Borley—whom he''d once loved but refused to marry because he believed he''d die in combat. Now Tony was on the base—married to a fighter pilot—and more desirable than ever . . . and their mutual attraction threatened to break their vows to duty and marriage. "A romance with the thunder of Korean guns in the background... Compelling and meaningful." —BIRMINGHAM NEWS

The wide range of Kantor''s interest and affection is apparent in this volume. He portrays the pioneers, the veterans, the rustic children and Missouri hill people who devotees of this author have grown to anticipate.

Chuck Noel has blue eyes, from which the pigment seems to have been washed by dry heat until only the blanched, toughened iris remains. He wears his hat on the back of his huge head, and in the hollow of his left arm is a light shoulder-holster with a spring clip. A double-action Colt .45 reposes there. Occasionally, of course, he has need to remove the Colt from beneath the spring clip, very hurriedly. But that is never in the Little Owl cafe...

An orphan boy, fugitive from a Spanish reformatory run by monks, is brought back to grace through a "natural miracle".

The Daughter of Bugle Ann, which picks up where the first volume, The Voice of Bugle Ann, leaves off, is, in our opinion, even better than the first. Benjy Davis is now married to Camden Terry. "A match made by a 30-30 rifle," says old Cal Royster. "A match made in heaven," says Mrs. Royster. In either case, it was a perfect match that would have been destroyed forever by Benjy''s hard-headedness, were it not for Camden''s secret, the full truth of which was unknown even to her until old Springfield Davis divined the mystery of the no-account bristly-faced dog.

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville She had in abundance those charms which in one way or another—but mostly in one way—have attracted men since time began. The swathings of the early nineteen hundreds failed to smother the blooming beauty of her figure; the hats of that day magically complemented the pile of shining hair over her cameo face. In a word, she had chic, that blessed something with which women of any day manage to triumph over preu00advailing fashion. She had, too, a station in life posu00adsessed of limitless fascination. She was a travelu00ading milliner, which, if one was young and pretty and the year was 1911, suggested the ultimate in lurid possibilities. Her name was Dolly Hessian, she was an exu00adcellent milliner, she had come—not completely unsoiled—from Chicago, and she knew exactly where she was going. When she arrived in Lexu00adington, Iowa, to ply her trade, she shrewdly asu00adsessed the chances for more lasting connections. She dallied secretly, and platonically, with Senu00adator Newgate, whose unconquerable lust later led to one of the most dangerous and devastatu00ading events of her life. But with Ben Steele, the town''s most eligible bachelor, she did not dally. She set about building for him a career that would carry both of them to political and social heights. Then, with success in her grasp, the tides of fortune forced upon her a tremendous choice, a decision to be reached instantly, and against a roaring, flame-lit background. There she stood at that portentous moment, a woman who had never before faltered, now wholly at the mercy of her own heart.