20 Good Reasons to Study the Civil War

by John C. Waugh

Book Overview

The Civil War was a unique watershed, not only in American history but world history. Since the last gun was fired before Appomattox, it has fascinated and mesmerized us, as vivid in our imaginations... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893114465
• ISBN13: 9781893114463
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: State House Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Fantastic Hornbook!!!

For anyone who doesn't understand the fascination of so many with the American Civil War, this book will in short order put your mind at ease that it is worth the years of study that so many put to it, from re-enactors, to college professors. John C. Waugh, in a most easily read fashion, will in less than 100 pages set you on what may become a lifelong passion. He shows how this 1400 Day War brought forth all that is important about the human drive to define its civilization, how so many could risk their lives for idealistic causes (including protecting their own homes and hearth, to paraphrase Cicero)....The reader will easily see how this short 4-year period turned the nation into the great object of desire for peoples world-wide, because it defined a nation of people in which anyone could aspire to accomplish as much, to define life as broadly and grandly as imaginable.True, this conflict did not resolve all conflicts, but it brought the underlying conflicts left unresolved in our founding documents out from behind the curtain for all the masses to see, and the blood shed, the pain endured for lifetimes by many more, really set the course we saw America follow for another century to come and more.Highly recommended!