7/6/2023 0 Comments Diary of Evil by Rick Royster![]() ![]() Largely foregoing discussions of weaponry and strategy in favor of individual and mass motivation, Royster ably illustrates how war was used to resolve deep uncertainties over liberty and federal authority dating back to the American Revolution. ![]() ![]() Here, LSU history professor Royster (Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution, 1981 A Revolutionary People at War, 1980) shows how both the North and South clamored for massive and lethal action against one another in the Civil War, only to find that the violence surpassed their fantasies of mayhem in unexpectedly nasty ways. ![]()
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