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Adam goodheart is a historian, journalist and travel writer. Looking at the civil war 150 years later tuesday marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the u. The civil war awakening by adam goodheart is destined to become an often read introduction to this terrible, turbulent time. Adam goodheart declares his intention at the outset of 1861, his peripatetic exploration of america on the brink of civil war, to take the scenic route through this welltraversed era of.

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