Stephen Budiansky is a historian, biographer, and the author of Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas and Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in Loudoun County, Virginia.
""This penetrating work… deserves to be read alongside Sears and McPherson by all students of the Civil War."" -- Harold Holzer - Wall Street Journal ""Absorbing, illuminating, compelling… Budiansky examines how ill-prepared we as a nation were for war, but more significantly, what we learned."" -- Jeff Rowe - Associated Press ""The September 1862 battle recounted through the lives of nine participants.... [T]hese masterful mini-biographies give the famous battle a compelling human face. A masterful addition to the crowded shelf of books about Antietam."" -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review