In this spellbinding history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson�s Battle Cry of Freedom. Where other scholars have seen the conflict as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield paints it as America�s greatest failure: a breakdown of society caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the world of politics. The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not: It made the United States one nation and eliminated the divisive force of slavery. The victorious North moved ahead, a land of innovation and industry. Religion was supplanted by a gospel of economic and scientific progress, and the South was left behind. The "fiery trial" of war transformed our country�a conflagration captured in vivid detail in America Aflame.
Authors
David Goldfield
Additional Info
- Release Date: 2012-09-04
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781608193905
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