A history graduate of the State University of New York at Albany,
Noah Andre (Andy) Trudeau has a continuing interest in American
cultural history. Formerly an executive producer in National Public
Radio's Cultural Programming Department, Trudeau is the recipient
of a major national program award from the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting for a four-part audio biography of Charles Ives
(whose father was a celebrated Civil War band leader).
He’s the proud son of two WWII veterans.
While a producer for WMHT-FM in Schenectady, New York, he created a weekly
film music series that included interviews with such film music personalities
as Jerome Moross, George Korngold (Erich's son), and Aaron Copland. Later, at
NPR, he joined with Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen to create a very
popular series of annual explorations of Oscar-nominated dramatic film scores.
In addition to his radio work, Andy has written about film music for American
Record Guide and High Fidelity.
His writing about the Civil War has appeared in Civil War Times Illustrated,
Gettysburg Magazine, Blue and Gray, North & South, The Columbiad,
America's Civil War, Naval History, and Military History Quarterly.
He appeared as one of the on-camera experts on the "Union soldier" segment of
Graystone's production Foot Soldier (for A&E). He's completed short
histories of the Petersburg and Appomattox campaigns for use in National Park Service
bookstores, an essay on Robert E. Lee's generalship in 1864 and 1865 for an
anthology edited by Gary Gallagher, and extensive picture captions/sidebar essays
for The American Heritage New History of the Civil War. He's also written
on a wide spectrum of military history topics on subjects as varied as the English
Civil War, World War I trench warfare, the American Revolutionary War, the Spanish
Civil War, WWII U-boats in the Indian Ocean, and U.S. Army operations in the west.
Bloody Roads South, his full-length study of the Overland Campaign of 1864 was
published by Little, Brown in 1989 and won the Civil War Round Table of New York's
prestigious Fletcher Pratt Award. His second book, The Last Citadel, covering the
entire siege of Petersburg, from June 1864 to April 1865, was published by Little,
Brown in 1991. His concluding book in this trilogy, Out of the Storm, covering the
final three months of the Civil War, was published in 1994. His fourth book, Like Men of War,
a combat history of black troops in the Civil War, was honored with the Grady
McWhiney Research Foundation's Jerry Coffey Memorial Book Prize. It is also published
by Little Brown (1998). Following that, he completed a new history of the Battle of
Gettysburg for HarperCollins titled Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage (2002). Also for
HarperCollins he wrote a history of Sherman’s March Through Georgia, Southern Storm (2008).
His two most recent works are a short biography of the South’s leading general,
Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2009), completed as
part of a “Great Generals Series” edited by General Wesley K. Clark. The other
was Lincoln’s Greatest Journey (Savas-Beatie 2016). That book received the Lincoln
Forum of New York’s coveted “Award of Achievement” as the best Lincoln book
published that year. The citation read: “A superb work of research, expertly
written, which details an aspect of the Lincoln presidency that has been little
studied and a much-needed in-depth work.”
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