![]() ![]() Goodheart also dispels through the persuasive use of contemporaneous accounts the persistent misconception that the cause of the war was something other than slavery. Goodheart appropriately opens the story in the weeks preceding the fateful election of Abraham Lincoln, reminding readers that from November 1860 until the firing on Fort Sumter the following April, most Americans hoped for some sort of compromise that would restore the Union. ![]() In 1861, Adam Goodheart eloquently uses the experiences of national leaders, emerging figures and common citizens to evoke the tension, fear and patriotism that gripped the North in the early months of the conflict. America’s Civil War Book Review: 1861 CloseĪMONG THE SCORES of new and forthcoming books on the Civil War, it is hard to imagine that any will be superior to 1861: The Civil War Awakening. ![]()
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