America aflame : how the Civil War created a nation / David Goldfield.
Goldfield, David R., 1944-
2011
E468.9 .G685 2011 (Mapit)
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Title America aflame : how the Civil War created a nation / David Goldfield.
Author Goldfield, David R., 1944-
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 9781596917026
1596917024
Publication Details New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 632 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Call Number E468.9 .G685 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.7/11
Summary In this history, the author offers a new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom." Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, this author sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second Great Awakening surged through America, political questions became matters of good and evil to be fought to the death. The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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