Avery Craven

Excellent and detailed account of the causes behind the American Civil War by eminent historian Avery O. Craven. "In recent years a highly industrious school of historians has begun asking whether the war should have been fought at all and whether it was perhaps not more the fault of the North than of the South. Seeking to revise earlier judgments they have become known as the revisionists, and one of the most gifted and studious of them all is Avery...