1861 by Adam Goodheart7/4/2023 ![]() Crittenden’s visage to “a death’s-head on a slate gravestone” (67) or balancing the universally lamented face of Benjamin F. His descriptions of people and places are transformative. No one can emerge from Goodheart’s work with anything less than admiration for his writing. Ironically in so doing, Goodheart gives us a starkly imbalanced snapshot of his subject that will enthrall some readers and leave others frustrated. Goodheart links his episodic narrative with a sharp perspective and an explicit agenda that follow the tradition of those scholars, acknowledged in the introduction to his bibliography, who have “correct past imbalances” (445). $28.85.Īdam Goodheart’s much heralded 1861: The Civil War Awakening is an eloquent, innovative, and deeply researched collection of chapter-length vignettes that surveys a variety of events at the outset of our national bloodletting. 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart. ![]()
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