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Article: Causes Won, Lost and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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Causes Won, Lost and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War, by Gary W. Gallagher. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 274 pp. $28.00 US (cloth).
This book evolved from Gary W. Gallagher's three Steven and Janice Brose lectures on the Civil War era delivered at Penn State University in April 2004. As an end product, Causes Won, Lost and Forgotten fuses Civil War military and cultural history in a particularly readable and entertaining manner, and represents a welcome addition to the already abundant body of Civil War literature. In this work, Gallaher demonstrates how Civil War film and representational ...