In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets "grows in our consciousness," arousing complex emotions and leaving "a gallery of great human images for our contemplation."
- ISBN10 0674521757
- ISBN13 9780674521759
- Publish Date 31 December 1983
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 September 1996
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 120
- Language English