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"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner

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Book Talk: Civil War Classics

Recommended by George Forgie

Book Talk books:

  • David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1977)
  • Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood, Abraham Lincoln (1916)
  • Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (1943)
  • David Blight, Frederick Douglass’s Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (1991)
  • Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War (1984)
  • James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988)
  • Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (1987)

Posted November 8, 2010 More Books, United States

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