A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of why We Fought the Civil War
- ISBN-10
- 0306821265
- ISBN-13
- 9780306821264
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 354
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Author
- Thomas Fleming
Description
A historian explores the possibility that the Civil War started not because of slavery, but because the South was chosen to house the nation's leadership instead of in Northern New England where the Revolution had begun. 35,000 first printing.
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