A Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War

by Richard Bak

2005 Michigan Notable Book Award First Prize/History, 2005 Midwest Book Awards Stuart D. and Vernice Gross Prize for Excellence in Literature

Genres: Civil War, History

240 pages, Hardcover

First published May 31, 2004

About the author

RICHARD BAK is a Detroit-based journalist and the author of twenty-five books, including 'Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire' and 'Peach: Ty Cobb in His Time and Ours.' He has received three ForeWord magazine Book-of-the-Year awards, the Stuart D. and Vernice M. Gross Prize for Literature, and two Emmys for his work as writer and coproducer of "Stranded at the Corner," a feature-length documentary about the fight to save Detroit's Tiger Stadium.