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Reviewed by David B. Sachsman | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 105.3 | The History Cooperative
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Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten
How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War

By Gary W. Gallagher
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Pp. 274. Illustrations, notes, index. $28.00.)

Gary W. Gallagher is a noted author and editor of books about the Civil War. In Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War, Gallagher turns his attention to movies and illustrations about the war. More specifically, he focuses on some fourteen films released in the past twenty years: Glory, Dances with Wolves, Gettysburg, Sommersby, Little Women, Pharaoh's Army, Andersonville, Ride with the Devil, The Gangs of New York, Gods and Generals, Cold Mountain, The Last Samurai, C.S.A. The Confederate States of America, and Seraphim Falls. . . .
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