Book Review| December 01 2016 War Had Transformed Them All: Coming to Terms with the Civil War The Abolitionist Imagination. By Andrew Delbanco. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012; pp. vii + 205. $24.95 cloth.American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era. By David W. Blight. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011; pp. 1 + 314; $27.95 cloth; $17.95 paper.Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. By Stephanie McCurry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012; pp. 1 + 449; $21.95 paper.Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865. By James Oakes. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2013; pp. ix + 595; $18.95 paper.Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War. By Michael C. C. Adams. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014; pp. ix + 292; $29.95 cloth. Jeffrey B. Kurtz Jeffrey B. Kurtz Jeffrey B.Kurtz is Associate Professor of Communication at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (4): 679–692. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.4.0679 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey B. Kurtz; War Had Transformed Them All: Coming to Terms with the Civil War. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2016; 19 (4): 679–692. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.4.0679 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: REVIEW ESSAY You do not currently have access to this content.