Monday, July 16, 2012

Who knew?

... The Author of the Civil War - NYTimes.com. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

2 comments:

  1. Well, Mark Twain for one, who argued that the Southerners would have been better off reading Cervantes than reading Scott. See Life on the Mississippi

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  2. I knew, too, but I suspect most people have forgotten the influence Scott had on the antebellum South.

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