Résumé de "What Caused The Civil War ? : Reflections On The South And Southern History"

In wide-ranging essays on the American Civil War, and the South, "an extremely good writer" (Boston Globe) explores the sources of the nation's and his own history. In the title essay, Edward L. Ayers offers a fresh perspective on the United States' central historical event and in his essay on Reconstruction the attempts to rebuild the South have implications for our own time.