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Yale Professor David Blight's book examines four writers he believes to be important in the study of the Civil War. These authors are: Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin. He believes these four were significant in the literary works about the Civil War and left a profound impact on our Civil War understanding. These men represent the turn of the twentieth century views of the Civil War. The divergent backgrounds of the four writers provide different points of view with which David Blight tackles the literary view of racism, the war, and the Lost Cause. The intent of the book is to create an uncomfortable feeling in the reader's comprehension of all that is related to the Civil War as they are challenged on what

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