374 | Elliot Ackerman: How a Divided America Grapples its Past, Present, and Future
The Realignment
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Shelby Foot and the Civil War
I really enjoyed the focus on the Civil War and Shelby Foot as a historian actually have a copy of his work back there it's never going to be read but I got the nice like hardcover thing from the publisher so it looks cool. So can you really just contextualize Shelby Foot and the 1990s discourse over the Civil War because it's a theme in the book? Yeah, and you know this isn't going to delve into the room with spoilers because it's fairly early on in the book but I think a lot of people are going to have context of why Shelby Foot is a historical figure that has recently come out of favor.
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