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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Goldfield, David R., 1944-     Subjects     National characteristics, American.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Religious aspects.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Goldfield, David R., 1944-       by title:      America aflame : how...       by call number:      973.711 G618a     Search the Web     Goldfield, David R., 1944-     National characteristics, American.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Religious aspects.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.       MARC Display

America aflame : how the Civil War created a nation / David Goldfield. by Goldfield, David R., 1944- Bloomsbury Press, 2011. Call #: 973.711 G618a Subjects National characteristics, American.   United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.   United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.   United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.   United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Religious aspects.   United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9781596917026 (hbk.) 1596917024 (hbk.) Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Description:  632 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [591]-615) and index. Contents:  A nation reborn -- Crusades -- Empire -- Revolutions -- Railroaded -- Blood on the Plains -- Revival -- The boatman -- The tug comes -- Just causes -- Shiloh awakening -- Born in a day -- Blood and transcendence -- A new nation -- War is cruelty -- One nation, indivisible -- The age of reason -- Aspirations -- A golden moment -- The golden spike -- Political science -- Let it be -- Centennial. 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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Tantallon Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.711 G618a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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