American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era

Type

Book

Authors

David W. Blight

ISBN 10

0674725972

ISBN 13

9780674725973

Tags

United States, Race Relations

Description

David Blight takes his readers back to the Civil War's centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier. He 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. - from Amzon

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