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How the South Won the Civil War - Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (Paperback)
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How the South Won the Civil War - Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (Paperback)
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Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and
giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson
argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked
victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated
South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a
natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing
into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the
Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented
racial hierarchies. The South and West equally depended on
extractive industries-cotton in the former and mining, cattle, and
oil in the latter-giving rise a new birth of white male oligarchy,
despite the guarantees provided by the 13th, 14th, and 15th
Amendments, and the economic opportunities afforded by expansion.
To reveal why this happened, How the South Won the Civil War traces
the story of the American paradox, the competing claims of equality
and subordination woven into the nation's fabric and identity. At
the nation's founding, it was the Eastern "yeoman farmer" who
galvanized and symbolized the American Revolution. After the Civil
War, that mantle was assumed by the Western cowboy, singlehandedly
defending his land against barbarians and savages as well as from a
rapacious government. New states entered the Union in the late
nineteenth century and western and southern leaders found yet more
common ground. As resources and people streamed into the West
during the New Deal and World War II, the region's influence grew.
"Movement Conservatives," led by westerners Barry Goldwater,
Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, claimed to embody cowboy
individualism and worked with Dixiecrats to embrace the ideology of
the Confederacy. Richardson's searing book seizes upon the soul of
the country and its ongoing struggle to provide equal opportunity
to all. Debunking the myth that the Civil War released the nation
from the grip of oligarchy, expunging the sins of the Founding, it
reveals how and why the Old South not only survived in the West,
but thrived.
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