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good dust-jacket but with tear at top of spine, small stain at bottom of spine apparent from reverse, cover price $29.95, very good white half-cloth with blue boards, but with a minor light stain at bottom of spine and a small tear in the blue paper covering of the boards also minor aesthetic issue, book itself is solid and appears little used if at all. BLIGHT, DAVID W. Race and reunion: the Civil War in American memory. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001, 512pp., . Out of print in hardcover - "No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion." "Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. He resurrects the variety of African American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial." - CONTENTS: 1. The dead and the living -- 2. Regeneration and reconstruction -- 3. Decoration days -- 4. Reconstruction and reconciliation -- 5. Soldiers' memory -- 6. Soldiers' faith -- 7. The literature of reunion and its discontents -- 8. The lost cause and causes not lost -- 9. Black memory and progress of the race -- 10. Fifty years of freedom and reunion. 9780674003323 ISBN 0674003322. Seller Inventory # 97553
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