American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era

By David W. Blight

Book Overview

David Blight takes his readers back to the Civil War's centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier. He shows how four of America's most incisive writers-Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin-explored the gulf between remembrance and reality.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674048555
• ISBN13: 9780674048553
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 5.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary