Divinely Ordained
Jackson Lears: God loves America, 19 May 2011
A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided
by Amanda Foreman.
Penguin, 988 pp., £12.99, June 2011,978 0 14 104058 5 Show More
by Amanda Foreman.
Penguin, 988 pp., £12.99, June 2011,
“... against evils, and perhaps there is no easier business,’ Trollope said of the anti-slavery MP John Bright, a theatrical orator who couldn’t be bothered with political detail. Celebrating the Civil War as a triumph of freedom over slavery is equally easy. A few decades ago, US historians tried to complicate this heroic narrative. Guided at times by ... ”
