Findings

Findings: Swept Away

By Adam Goodheart | March 1, 2005

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Adam Goodheart is the author of 1861:The Civil War Awakening. He is director of Washington College’s C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. He was a founding editor of Civilization magazine, and his essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Outside, and other publications

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