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Cinematic script as history; Book shows how films shape popular understanding of period.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
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Byline: John M... Taylor, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Winston Churchill called the American Civil War "the noblest and least avoidable" of the great wars up to that time. Mark Twain remarked that in the South, "the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it."
The war has been a boon to publishers, who have produced more than 60,000 books dealing with it. The war also has been a boon to Hollywood, and the themes of various motion pictures over the decades have been analyzed as the subject of a book by a noted Civil War historian, Gary W. Gallagher of the ...
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