Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South PB_Gift_Guide bestselling author of Little Fires

bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts

and they will ensnare your soul

The trouble with scoundrels and blackguards is that they haven’t a modicum of honor

Help appears when she needs it most

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South PB_Gift_Guide bestselling author of Little FiresPulitzer Prize Finalist Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner of the Merle Curti Award McCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Dedicated to the proposition that men were not created equal, the Confederacy had to fight a two front war. Not only against Union armies, but also slaves and poor white women who rose in revolt across the South. Richly detailed and lucidly told, Confederate Reckoning is a