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Race and reunion
the Civil War in American memory
By Blight, David W.
- ISBN
- 978-0-67400-332-3
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2000
Blight (history and black studies, Amherst Coll.; Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee) traces America's tragic pursuit of national reunification and reconciliation after the Civil War at the expense of the conflict's emancipationist legacy. He ponders such threats to this legacy as Lost Cause myths, fading and sometimes revisionist veteran recollections, financ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
