American Oracle

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.

About the author

David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History, and Race and Reunion (Harvard), which received the Bancroft Prize and Frederick Douglass Prize, among other awards.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: David W Blight, David W. Blight
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2013
• EAN: 9780674725973
• ISBN: 978-0-674-72597-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War, Social discrimination and social justice, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)