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American Oracle : The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era by David W. Blight (2013, Trade Paperback)

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Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared, "One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free." He delivered this speech just three years after the Virginia Civil War Commission published a guide proclaiming that "the Centennial is no time for finding fault or placing blame or fighting the issues all over again." David Blight takes his readers back to the centennial celebration to determine how Americans then made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation that had wracked the United States a century earlier. Amid cold war politics and civil rights protest, four of America's most incisive writers explored the gulf between remembrance and reality. Robert Penn Warren, the southern-reared poet-novelist who recanted his support of segregation; Bruce Catton, the journalist and U.S. Navy officer who became a popular Civil War historian; Edmund Wilson, the century's preeminent literary critic; and James Baldwin, the searing African-American essayist and activist--each exposed America's triumphalist memory of the war. And each, in his own way, demanded a reckoning with the tragic consequences it spawned. Blight illuminates not only mid-twentieth-century America's sense of itself but also the dynamic, ever-changing nature of Civil War memory. On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the war, we have an invaluable perspective on how this conflict continues to shape the country's political debates, national identity, and sense of purpose.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674725972
ISBN-13
9780674725973
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167633634

Product Key Features

Book Title
American Oracle : the Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
Author
David w. Blight
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Historiography, American / African American, United States / 20th Century, Discrimination & Race Relations, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Literary, American / General
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
328 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz

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E468.5.B55 2013
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This is a distinctive addition to the books about the Civil War and how we view it on the conflict's 150th anniversary., As the sesquicentennial of the Civil War (2011-15) begins, historian Blight examines how we handled the centennial, which occurred at the infancy of the civil rights movement, and the persistent questioning about all the elements that were at the heart of the nation-rending civil conflict. History and great literature blend beautifully as Blight conducts his examination of the works of four writers--Robert Penn Warren, southern-born novelist; Bruce Catton, historian and journalist; Edmund Wilson, literary critic; and James Baldwin, northern-born essayist and race critic--providing background and context for their works and their views of the centennial and all its commercialism and hypocrisy. From their different perspectives, the four offer 'a way of understanding the Civil War both as something very American and as an event in a larger human drama.' Blight explores Warren's straightforward look at the racism at the heart of the war and the continued hypocrisy of southern commemorations, Catton's cold-eyed examination of the cost of war, Wilson's deconstruction of the war as a unifier of the nation, and Baldwin's chastisement of American racism. Throughout, Blight explores the mythology that came out of the Civil War and the sense of American redemption that did not include any examination of the tragedies of racism and slavery., This book is several things, suggests Blight, but he hits it best when he characterizes it as a 'discussion of four Americans in search of their country's history.' In doing so, he gives us more than a history lesson: he presents an introspective journey into America's most complex and enigmatic historical event through the minds of four exceptional storytellers. He offers us the opportunity to revisit a monumental tragedy and thereby invites us to probe its meaning. If we do, we will not only be reacquainted with a defining American moment but we will also learn more about who America is, and why.
Copyright Date
2013
Dewey Decimal
973.70072
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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