Title: Over-rated ahistorical journalistic pap
Review: This book is well written, which is about all the positive I would say for it. The book contains, as far as I could tell, absolutely nothing new. Just a retread, at a very high level, of numerous other works on the Civil War. Why was it needed to be an addition to the already huge Civil War literature? It was not! Why did it need that pretentious and overblown title? Must have been the publisher's choice, to sell more, since the book in no place makes the successful argument that this was the point that saved America.
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