America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a…

America Aflame (original 2011; edition 2011)

by David Goldfield

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Title:	America Aflame
Authors:	David Goldfield
Info:	Bloomsbury Press (2011), Kindle Edition, 640 pages
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America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation by David Goldfield (2011)

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For Marie-Louise

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(Introduction) Can anyone say anything new about the Civil War?

Convent life no longer suited Sister Mary John.

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McPherson, James M.

Cobb, James C.

Foster, Gaines M.

Burton, Orville Vernon

Holzer, Harold

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In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major 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, Goldfield 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.… (more)

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