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What do you mean, "a good war"? (Bird's Eye).
It is sometimes said, including by me, that Americans don't know as much history as they ought to. But there is one era that many Americans have studied carefully--and that is our own Civil War epoch.
Indeed, national interest in the Civil War borders on obsession: over 60,000 books about the clash have been produced--more than one a day since Lee called it quits at Appomattox Court House. An amazing 7,000 volumes have been written about Lincoln alone, making him the most heavily investigated figure in American history.
And our fascination with the Civil War is rising, not falling. Your editors added up registered visits to a dozen of the top battlefields ...
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