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- W2372640662 abstract "In this provocative book on an old subject, written for a broad audience, David Goldfield maintains that southerners have, since 1865, lived under a “burden” of history and memory. The southerner, writes Goldfield, is “either fixated upon the past and therefore immobilized by it, or . . . a total amnesiac and therefore destructive.” Still Fighting the Civil War is one historian’s update of W. J. Cash’s The Mind of the South, which also returns to the themes of irony, identity, and the weight of a peculiar past in C. Vann Woodward’s The Burden of Southern History. This is not a work of research scholarship, but a commentary, rooted in a wide reading of secondary sources, fiction, and journalism, about “why southerners have remembered the Civil War and Reconstruction as they have.” With a wonderful eye for the memorable quotation and some graceful prose of his own, Goldfield examines how and why the pervasive myth of the Lost Cause has lasted so long. Like Cash, Goldfield reveals the persistence of southern intolerance, conservatism, and reaction. And he is ultimately concerned with race relations in the current South, with the region’s growing sun-belt migration, industrialization, environmental erosion, and dominance of American politics, all of which, he contends, is tethered to a cultural need to “still fight the Civil War.” This is a probing book about the hold of the past, experienced largely as heritage and memory and not as historical understanding, on a whole region and people. Goldfield treats the Lost Cause with unblinking directness. It was, to him, a false explanation of loss and defeat, “no real tradition at all but rather a manufactured history woven from wishes, lies, and necessity and passed off as gospel.” Telling it like it is/was, Goldfield portrays the Lost Cause as religious orthodoxy mixed with versions of the past that helped fashion social policies and institutions that he is unafraid to call “authoritarian” and “totalitarian.” Some sections of the book read like lucid editorials against school prayer and for careful separation of" @default.
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