This War Ain't Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America

by Nina Silber

Book Overview

The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and film Gone with the Wind and the scores of popular theater productions to Aaron Copeland's "A Lincoln Portrait," it was hard to miss America's fascination with the war in the 1930s and 1940s. Nina Silber deftly examines the often conflicting and politically contentious ways in which Americans remembered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469646544
• ISBN13: 9781469646541
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 9.8"