Böcker av Robert J. Cook

Secession Winter explores the fact of contingency and reminds readers and students that nothing was foreordained.

In 1957, Congress voted to set up the Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency, the commission's charge was to oversee preparations to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the central event in the Republic's history. Robert Cook recounts the planning, organisation, and ultimate failure of this controversial event.