Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America - William C. Davis Audiobook
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William C. Davis, one of America’s best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America not simply as a military saga (although it is that), but rather as a full portrait of a society and incipient nation. The first history of the Confederacy in decades, the culmination of a great scholar’s career, Look Away! combines politics, economics, and social history to set a new standard for its subject.
Previous histories have focused on familiar commanders such as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, but Davis’s canvas is much broader. From firebrand politicians like Robert Barnwell Rhett and William L. Yancey, who pushed for secession long before the public supported it; to Dr. Samuel Cartwright, who persuaded many Southerners of the natural inferiority of their slaves; to the women of Richmond, who rioted over bread shortages in 1863, Davis presents a rich new face of the Confederate nation. He recounts familiar stories of battles won and lost, but also little-known economic stories of a desperate government that socialized the salt industry, home-front stories of the rangers and marauders who preyed on their fellow Confederates, and an account of the steady breakdown of law, culminating in near anarchy in some states. Never has the Confederacy been so vividly brought to life as a full society, riven with political and economic conflicts beneath its more loudly publicized military battles.
Davis’s astonishingly thorough primary research has ranged across the 800-odd newspapers that were in operation during the war, but also across the personal papers of over a hundred Southern leaders and ordinary citizens. He quotes from letters and diaries throughout the narrative, revealing the Confederacy through the words of the Confederates themselves. Like any society, especially in the early stages of nation-building and the devastating stages of warfare, the Confederacy was not one thing but many things to many people. One thing, however, was shared by all: the belief that the South offered a necessary evolution of American democracy. Look Away! offers a dramatic and definitive account of one of America’s most searing episodes.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
December 24th, 2022
“Davis’s astonishingly thorough primary research has ranged across the 800-odd newspapers that were in operation during the war, but also across the personal papers of over a hundred Southern leaders and ordinary citizens. He quotes from letters and diaries throughout the narrative, revealing the Confederacy through the words of the Confederates themselves.”
This doesn’t sound like an objective, unbiased, “fair & balanced” way of writing (re-writing?” history to me
December 24th, 2022
DONT TROST THE FEEDERAL GOVENMNT THEY EWIILL COME FOR YORUR PROOPERTY JUST LIKE THEY CAME OUR NEGRAS!!!
STATS RIHGTS!!!
TRUMMP 20204!!!!
December 24th, 2022
Thanks rmoor. Good to see you back. Have a good Christmas.
December 26th, 2022
>This doesn’t sound like an objective, unbiased, “fair & balanced” way of writing (re-writing?” history to me
Why not? That’s how historiography is done.
December 27th, 2022
rless is back with more bullisht. I’m taking up a collection to pay for a brain scan for the poor simp.
December 29th, 2022
LOL rmoor, stirring up the easily offended unstable mob once again!
May 2nd, 2023
The emancipation proclamation was not issued until the third year of the war so slavery was not the main issue until the union needed a cause after losing every major engagement until 1863. Lincoln tried to have the slaves relocated to Liberia. I had 2 great great great grandfather’s that fought for the CSA, one died at Vicksburg and one fought and survived the battle of Shiloh and was later married to a black woman. She was my great great great grandmother. From their journals and letters neither of them had ever seen a slave during the war, they fought because their states were being invaded, burned and atrocities were being committed against the populace of the places they called home. I am not a white supremacists not even a Republican, I just grew up in the south and I know history from actual words and records of my family that lived during this time. It was horrible but there were evil and good men on both sides of the Mason Dixon line and to vilify the hundreds of thousands of men that died fighting for their homes and families is not right. To say it was only about slavery is false but I gave up trying to change this narrative years ago.
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