![]() ![]() Crittenden’s visage to “a death’s-head on a slate gravestone” (67) or balancing the universally lamented face of Benjamin F. ![]() His descriptions of people and places are transformative. ![]() No one can emerge from Goodheart’s work with anything less than admiration for his writing. Ironically in so doing, Goodheart gives us a starkly imbalanced snapshot of his subject that will enthrall some readers and leave others frustrated. Goodheart links his episodic narrative with a sharp perspective and an explicit agenda that follow the tradition of those scholars, acknowledged in the introduction to his bibliography, who have “correct past imbalances” (445). $28.85.Īdam Goodheart’s much heralded 1861: The Civil War Awakening is an eloquent, innovative, and deeply researched collection of chapter-length vignettes that surveys a variety of events at the outset of our national bloodletting. 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart. ![]()
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