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Catton brings a sensible and charming look back at his boyhood in a remote area of northern Michigan just as the logging era was ending. Catton writes his look back memoir at a time now long past with a journalists economical and no-nonsense style. Sometimes nostalgic, this is a delightful "sum up' book that seriously questions the future without needlessly getting mired in nostalgic rumination. Grab this mostly forgotten charmer by one of America's best narrative writers about the American Civil War and cozy up to a good read on a winter night.
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Readers of Bruce Catton's classic volumes in Civil War came to expect lucid and vivid prose, a clear narrative and thoughtful conclusions. Waiting for the Morning Train is a memoir of Catton's youth in northern Michigan, and readers will find the same traits echoed in this book. Catton looked back to a time around the turn of the 20th century when life in a small town conformed to the rhythm of the seasons, and when growing up came with a sense of secure values and predictable experience. The Great War of 1914-18 brought that world to an end, and what has replaced it, in Catton's view, was a poor substitute for the life he led as a child and young man. The memoir ends with his departure for college during the war. Anyone who emjoys clear, beautifully written memoirs, an interest in Michigan history and a desire to learn more about this famed Civil War historian will profit from reading this book.Read full review
This is a short and lively book about the author's childhood in Northern Michigan and the changes he experienced in terms of perception of time since that time.