The Fall of the House of Dixie
The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

Can anything new be written about the American Civil War? You would be surprised. Historians like to say that more than 60,000 books have been written about the war - a number proposed by Jonathan Sarna, a specialist on the history of American Jews, who in 2001 estimated that around 50,000 books hav......more

I LOVED THIS BOOK. This is a big deal for me, because I'm not really a big non-fiction fan. I picked this book up because of a happy coincidence of my re-watching Ken Burns' The Civil War on Netflix, having just recently seen Lincoln, and happening upon an interview on Fresh Air with Bruce Levine. Mr......more

In 1859, Robert E. Lee, who was to become the greatest general on the Confederate side of the Civil War, recaptured three of his slaves -- a man and two women -- who had escaped to Maryland from his Arlington plantation in Virginia. They were brought back, taken to a barn, stripped to the waist, and......more

History is only understood when it no longer matters. This book was written in 2013 and destroys the MAGA hat moron army of anti-woke history deniers who are still flapping their jaws as they support Donald Trump. They are anachronisms today and our understanding of history is moving past them at wa......more

The American Civil War was about slavery. It's dumb to say it isn't. In this book, Bruce Levine comprehensively and meticulously details exactly how dumb. Levine has a clear agenda here, an argument to make, and he makes it very well. He writes with passion, but he backs everything up with logic and......more