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The Civil Conflict is the foremost trauma ever experienced by the American region, a four-year paroxysm of assault that still left in its wake more than 600,000 deceased, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) greater than $700 billion in property. The war also sparked a few of the most heroic occasions in American background and enshrined a galaxy of American heroes. Above all, it permanently concluded the practice of slavery and proven, in an age of resurgent monarchies, that a liberal democracy could endure the most frightful of issues. In Fateful Lightning, two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a wonderful portrait of the Civil Conflict and its time, covering not only the major characters and epic fights, but also politics, religious beliefs, gender, race, diplomacy, and technology. And unlike other surveys of the Civil Conflict era, it expands the reader's vista to add the postwar Reconstruction period and discusses the modern-day legacy of the Civil Conflict in American literature and popular culture. Guelzo also puts the turmoil in a worldwide perspective, underscoring People in america' severe sense of the vulnerability with their republic in an environment of monarchies. He examines the strategy, the practices, and especially the logistics of the Civil Conflict and brings the most recent historical thinking to carry on emancipation, the presidency and the war powers, the blockade and international law, and the role of intellectuals, North and South. Compiled by a leading expert on our nation's most searing problems, Fateful Lightning offers a brilliant and original accounts of a meeting whose echoes continue with People in america to this day.
