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Paperback. The Civil War confronted all Americans with the weightiest moral and political issues since the American Revolution. In diaries and journals they argued and agonized with themselves; in sermons and speeches, in poems and love letters, they revealed to one another their own interior war. Editor(s): Bodden, Donna; Lang, Eleanor. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 212.
The Civil War confronted all Americans with the weightiest moral and political issues since the American Revolution. In diaries and journals they argued and agonized with themselves; in sermons and speeches, in poems and love letters, they revealed to one another their own interior war. As they sought with words to hold their experiences steady for a moment, they sometimes achieved the eloquence that may evoke extraordinary times.
The Civil War confronted all Americans with the weightiest moral and political issues since the American Revolution. In diaries and journals they argued and agonized with themselves; in sermons and speeches, in poems and love letters, they revealed to one another their own interior war. As they sought with words to hold their experiences steady for a moment, they sometimes achieved the eloquence that may evoke extraordinary times.
The 59 selections in this volume, written between 1860 and 1865, include such well-known writers as Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, Melville, and Whitman, as well as the lesser-known, whose experience of ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781881089315
SKU
V9781881089315
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Ref
99-50
About Bodden
Eleanor M. Lang is Professor Emerita of English at Southern Connecticut State University. Donna Bodden is Professor Emerita at Southern Connecticut State University.
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