Bruce Chadwick is an American historian. He spent 23 years as a journalist with the New York Daily News before earning a doctorate in American history in 1994 at Rutgers University, where he now teaches part-time.[1]
With regard to the Civil War, Chadwick's first book—Brother Against Brother: The Lost Civil War Diary of Lt. Edmund Halsey—was published in 1997, then followed two years later by a dual biography contrasting the Civil War's chief executives and titled Two American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, 1861-1865, a work that was a finalist for the
Lincoln Prize. He has also published assessments concerning theatrical screen portrayals of the war in The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film (2001) and about the economic, social, and political causes of the conflict in 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See (2008). Chadwick has researched and written extensively too about events and historical figures involved in the American Revolution and in the early formation of the United States, two examples being George Washington's War: The Forging of a Revolutionary Leader and the American Presidency (2004) and I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation (2008), the latter being an examination of the slaying of a Founding Father.
