A War Far from Over

SUMMING UP the American Civil War in a 1958 issue of Life magazine, Winston Churchill called it the “least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.” Andrew Delbanco’s new book The War Before the War also emphasizes the war’s inevitability because of the “long fuse” of the political […]

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