Essays - Autumn 2005

Tea and Fantasy

Fact, fiction, and revolution in an American town

By Adam Goodheart

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Adam Goodheart is the author of 1861:The Civil War Awakening, forthcoming in April, from which this article is adapted. He is director of Washington College’s C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.