Jumat, 10 November 2017

Conscientious Objections

Being committed to the Union didn’t keep some of America’s most famous writers from questioning the morality of war. Before the Civil War staggered to its conclusion, the prominent New England novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne was destined to enter the lone seclusion of the grave. But while he lived, Hawthorne took careful …

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