Robert Penn Warren, The Legacy of the Civil War. New York: Random House, 1961.
I am of course not the first person to review Robert Penn Warren’s Legacy - here’s an earlier example. The Civil War Monitor recently listed Warren’s book among The Five Best Books on Civil War Memory, which is what prompted me to read Legacy of the Civil War in the past week.
Robert Penn Warren was a yuge novelist, poet, and it turns out, essayist. The Legacy of the Civil War is short but packs in plenty of important observations.