TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldfield,David R.
TI  - America aflame: how the Civil War created a nation 
SN  - 1596917024 (hbk.)
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Press
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Causes
KW  - Influence
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [591]-615) and index; 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
N2  - In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major 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, Goldfield 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
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