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March, 2008
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Copperhead Gore
Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America

Edited by Menahem Blondheim
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 292. Appendices, glossary, notes. Clothbound, $55.00; paperbound, $21.95.)

"An interesting cultural artifact" is a euphemism literary critics sometimes use for a piece of literature that is a dog artistically but has value for what it illuminates about the society that produced it. Such is the case with Fort Lafayette; or, Love and Secession, a Civil War novel published in 1862 by Benjamin Wood, Democratic U.S. congressman from New York, owner-editor of The New York Daily News, and a Copperhead. 1
      Menahem Blondheim, of the departments of American Studies and Communication at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has exhumed Wood's long-forgotten novel, added an extensive introduction and glossary, and appended two of Wood's anti-war congressional speeches. The result is an eye-opening overview of the Copperhead movement, particularly in New York, during the war. . . .
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