American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era

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.

Author(s): David W. Blight
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-09-26
Pages: 326
Categories: Social Science