The first study to document how the Civil War brought about a bitter cultural and political conflict between Great Britain and the United States, a conflict that ignited a global struggle for racial equality and human rights.
Len Gougeon is Distinguished Professor of American Literature, Emeritus, at the University of Scranton, past President of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, and recipient of the society's Distinguished Achievement Award. He is the author of Emerson and Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero, also by SUNY Press.
