The myth of the lost cause : why the South fought the Civil War and why the North won /
The former Confederate states have continually mythologized the South's defeat to the North, depicting the Civil War as unnecessary, or as a fight over states' Constitutional rights or as a David v. Goliath struggle in which the North waged 'total war' over an underdog South. In...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Regnery Publishing,
[2015]
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| Summary: | The former Confederate states have continually mythologized the South's defeat to the North, depicting the Civil War as unnecessary, or as a fight over states' Constitutional rights or as a David v. Goliath struggle in which the North waged 'total war' over an underdog South. In The Myth of the Lost Cause, historian Edward Bonekemper deconstructs this multi-faceted myth, revealing the truth about the war that nearly tore the nation apart 150 years ago. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 366 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781621574545 (hardback) 1621574547 (hardback) |