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A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860 by Faust, Drew Gilpin (ISBN: 9780812212297)
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A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860 Paperback - 1986
by Faust, Drew Gilpin
From the publisher
A Sacred Circle has been widely acclaimed as the first full treatment of the existence of a Southern reform impulse that offers a new explanation of the proslavery argument. The book demonstrates the widespread similarities between the cultural tensions that plagued North and South and documents the existence of critical thinking in a region too often considered monolithic.
The ambivalent feelings of this group of men for their region, their need both to justify and to return, embody the dilemma not just of Southerners from Jefferson to Quentin Compson and C. Van Woodward but of the intellectual throughout history.
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- Title A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860
- Author Faust, Drew Gilpin
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, Philadelphia
- Date 1986-08
- ISBN 9780812212297
About the author
Drew Gilpin Faust taught at the University of Pennsylvania for 25 years before becoming Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2001 She was appointed President of Harvard University in 2007. Among her other books are The Ideology of Slavery: The Proslavery Argument in the Old South and Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War.
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