Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South

by Stephanie McCurry

Book Overview

Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Winner of the Merle Curti Award

"McCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Dedicated to the proposition that men were not created equal, the Confederacy had to fight a two-front war. Not only against Union armies, but also slaves and poor white women who rose in revolt across the South. Richly detailed and lucidly told,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674064216
• ISBN13: 9780674064218
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"