![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() McCurry endeavors from the outset to clearly outline the flawed logic of the Confederacy’s founders in provoking “precisely the transformation of their own political culture that they had hoped to avoid by secession” (1). Instead, the book offers a full-scale examination of the political actors (white and black) that contributed to a marked shift in Confederate policy regarding women and slavery-developments that McCurry argues affected a newly-(re)United States in the aftermath of the war. Yet, in McCurry’s work readers will find a pronounced movement away from simply addressing the question of why the Confederacy failed. Throughout her analysis, she clearly illustrates that the fundamental pro-slavery ideologies upon which the short-lived nation rested ultimately contributed to its downfall. Stephanie McCurry’s latest work offers a welcomed examination of the “Confederate Project” as it existed from 1860 to 1865. ![]() Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry. ![]()
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