Bøker av Richard Slotkin

The culture wars are pitting us against each other with a vitriol that is fueling outright violence. Slotkin looks to the foundational myths that have shaped American identity-the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (Emancipation and the Lost Cause), and the Good War-and reveals why they are bringing the US to the brink of an existential crisis.

Originally published: Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

A masterful account of the Civil War's turning point in the tradition of James McPherson's Crossroads of Freedom.