Enduring legacy rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause / W. Stuart Towns.

Contents Rhetoric, celebration, and ritual: building a collective memory in the postwar South -- Remembering the Confederacy: ceremony in the postwar South, 1865-1920s -- The road to secession and war: the oratorical defense of the Confederacy and the Old South -- Creating the myths of the war: martyrs and scapegoats of the Confederacy -- Creating the myths of Reconstruction, redemption, reconciliation, and the new and future South: the rest of the story -- The persistence of a myth: the lost cause in the modern South.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [147]-163, [165]-182) and index.
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LCCN 2011036633
ISBN9780817317522 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780817385811 (electronic)