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Title: The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren, Howard Jones ISBN: 0-8032-9801-3 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.20 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding
Comment: Interesting little book, this. Costs next-to nothing and takes almost no time to read. But there's more here than most of the other spurious profundity published these days.
Warren, a Kentuckian whose grandfather fought for the Confederacy during that war, looks at the effects of the war on both North and South. Warren is harsh on the hypocrisy of the North and its "Treasury of Virtue" as he calls it. But he is no Lost Causer; he is equally harsh with the South, with its "Great Alibi." And Warren is scathing with those racists who believed(and still believe)themselves to be the legatees of Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee. An essential book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A miniature classic of historical interpretation
Comment: The noted poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren wrote several brilliant book-length essays on various subjects, including JEFFERSON DAVIS GETS HIS CITIZENSHIP BACK (which originally appeared in THE NEW YORKER) and INTEGRATION, but none better than this miniature classic of historical interpretation. In 1961, when LIFE magazine asked him for his thoughts on the centennial of the Civil War, he wrote this superb, thoughtful essay (originally subtitled "A Meditation on the Centennial"). In an extraordinarily compressed discussion, Warren notes a dizzying variety of effects that the war and the policies it brought in its wake had on American society. His two most important observations have to do with the ways that the North and the South used the war as alibis. For the victorious North, the war was a "treasury of virtue" that excused generations of corruption, short-sighted public policy, and neglect of national interests; after all, we won the war and freed the slaves. For the defeated South, the war was "the great alibi" that excused every failure to grapple with a region's pressing social and economic problems. Warren never wrote better than in these eloquent pages; this book should be required reading for anyone interested in the Civil War in particular or American history in general. Its reappearance, with a fine introduction by Howard Jones (author of MUTINY ON THE AMISTAD and other excellent histories of the Civil War era), is cause for celebration. -- Richard B. Bernstein, Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School, and Daniel M. Lyons Visiting Professor in American History, Brooklyn College/CUNY (1997-1998)
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Title: Embattled Courage : The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War by Gerald Linderman ISBN: 0029197619 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 17 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Civil War in the American West by Alvin M. Josephy ISBN: 0679740031 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson ISBN: 0345359429 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 21 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Confederate War by Gary W. Gallagher ISBN: 0674160568 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane ISBN: 0812504798 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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