How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

Title: How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America Author: Heather Cox Richardson ISBN: 9780197581797 Publisher: Oxford University Press Published: 2022 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1559475 Publisher Description: 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 Nat