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51-5223 E415 2012-51538 CIP Wineapple, Brenda. Ecstatic nation: confidence, crisis, and compromise, 1848-1877. HarperCollins, 2013. 722p bibl index ISBN 9780061234576, $35.00
Wineapple's engaging panorama of the Civil War era re-creates its complexity and contradictions through a collage of individuals. A country born of compromise with slavery and commitment to white supremacy growing bountiful on the...