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Title: Poor writing & little originality make for long semester.
Review: As a history major at Purdue University, I was required to read this for a Confederacy History class. Too many quotes and too little original thought made this a terrible text. It also seems to be highly antagonistic towards the South - very unprofessional for an historical text, as this purports to be. The writing style was very high-flown, and not at all engaging. The authors were also found to contradict themselves on several occasions. About 90% of my class-mates were dissatisfied with the book.
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