TY  - BOOK
AU  - Suri,Jeremi
TI  - Civil War by other means: America's long and unfinished fight for democracy 
SN  - 9781541758544
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - PublicAffairs
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
KW  - Neo-Confederacy movements
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - History
KW  - White people
KW  - Race identity
KW  - 1865-1951
KW  - United States
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Influence
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1865-1945
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Dying for Country -- Martyrs -- Exiles -- Citizens -- Republicans -- Impeachment -- Will to Power -- Contested Election -- Caretaker -- Death Again -- Legacies
N2  - "In Civil War by Other Means, Jeremi Suri, shows how the victory of the Union was never secure and the resistance to it began immediately. Key Confederate figures fled to exile in Mexico after their defeat and returned when they could safely resume their former lives once the threat of Northern domination had been quashed. Many antebellum influences and attitudes lived on secretly, and their creeping influence gradually overwhelmed Lincoln's vision for a more progressive and egalitarian America. The Civil War, in short, was never completely over for the defeated; they pursued it through guile, stealth, and persistence, outlasting the resolve of the northern interlopers and returning the South to its retrogressive customs and habits"--
ER  -