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America Aflame: How The Civil War Created A Nation (2011)

by David R. Goldfield(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1596917024 (ISBN13: 9781596917026)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Bloomsbury Press

review 1: Amazing account of what fueled the war both in the north and the south, and it's aftermath Telling the the history of the war, along with stories of people who lived through it-from Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglas, Lincoln, Harriet Ward Beecher; to Gran , Lee, Hooker,Sideburn; and the plantation owners, wealthy northerns, poor southerners, middle class city dwellers, slaves, freedman, etc. It's incredibly how how Mr. Goldfield captures the diverse and, often conflicting, conscious of a nation.
review 2: Excellent analysis of the period of American history from before the Civil War through reconstruction. Unique was the look at the role rising evangelical Christianity played in the North before the war, and how it fed the anti-slavery movement, and then how i... moret shifted after the war to the South and kept them from moving forward. For me, it helped to provide insight into how the US developed socially and how we got to where we are today. less

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