Five outstanding novels about the Civil War era

David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University. His books include American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.For the Wall Street Journal, he named a five best list of novels about the Civil War era. One title on the list:All the King's Menby Robert Penn Warren (1946)Widely considered a book about the dark arts of politics, this work is at heart a