New Tome Details North America's Uncivil Times

By now, there have been more gallons of ink spilled in chronicling, analyzing and Monday Morning Quarterbacking the Civil War than blood spilled on all of its battlefields. Yet the period remains catnip to scholars and amateur historians for its deep-set meanings and motivations that still resonate today.But noted historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor has done something different with his latest doorstop tome,And that’s because the takes the “American”—as in North American—definition wider.So, while the bulk of the book is a compact social, political and military look at...