The Legacy of the Civil War Warren Robert PennPaperback
The Legacy of the Civil War Warren Robert PennPaperback In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He…
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The Legacy of the Civil War Warren Robert PennPaperback
In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological.
Introducing this edition is Howard Jones, University Research Professor and chair of the History Department at the University of Alabama. The war in all its facets "grows in our consciousness," arousing complex emotions and leaving "a gallery of great human images for our contemplation." A distinguished poet, novelist, and historian, Robert Penn Warren wrote The Legacy of the Civil War for the centennial in 1961. His works include Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War, also