Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (David W. Blight - CH) Smith Tucker recounts the story of

Tucker recounts the story of Custer at Gettysburg with verve

and Edmund Wilson hailed them as great literature

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George Armstrong Custer is famous for his fatal defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (David W. Blight - CH) Smith Tucker recounts the story ofby David W. Blight Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Winner of the Merle Curti award Winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize 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