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A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South. By Eugene D. Genovese. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. xviii, 180 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-8203-2046-3.)

This volume, originally presented as the Lamar Memorial Lectures at Mercer University, provides an incisive, provocative, and mostly persuasive analysis of what certain white clergymen thought about slavery, the Confederacy, and the Civil War. The writing is vivid, the analysis rigorous, and the whole effectively illustrated with quotations. While the basic argument is not new, it has never before been spelled out so carefully and completely. . . .

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