Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War In 1862

摘要

Even the best authors sometimes have trouble getting their heads out of the present and into the past they are writing about. This "presentism"-to use an academic term-tends to corrupt the work as a whole, no matter how well researched it is or how reputable the author's credentials. Sadly, that is the case with William Marvel's Lincoln's DarkestYear.The War in 1862, an obvious antiwar diatribe clothed in historical scholarship.