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New Perspectives on Four Leading Figures on Both Sides of America’s Nation-Shaking Civil War

Their lingering influence and contested legacies are a reminder of William Faulkner’s insight that ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’

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CARL ROLLYSON
CARL ROLLYSON

‘Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War‘
By Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Bison Books, 360 pages

‘Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South‘
By Elizabeth Varon
Simon & Schuster, 480 pages

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CARL ROLLYSON
CARL ROLLYSON

Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. He has published fourteen biographies and has written about biography for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington, Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Criterion, and other publications.

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