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AMERICAN ORACLE
THE CIVIL WAR IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA |
| By: |
David W. Blight |
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Paperback |
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£16.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674725972 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674725973 |
| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
4 October, 2013 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
Takes readers back to the Civil War's centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier. The author shows how four of America's most incisive writers - Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin - explored the gulf between remembrance and reality. |
| Synopsis: |
Amid cold war politics and civil rights protest, four of America's most incisive writers explored the gulf between remembrance and reality. Each exposed America's triumphalist memory of the war. and each, in his own way, demanded a reckoning. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
The Belknap Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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