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."
