Author and columnist John Warner writes, ''North and South' was one of those grown-up books I read before I was a grown-up, where it felt like I was being let into some secret store of knowledge.'
I still wonder at that kid, so eager to know more that he’d gulp down an 800-page Civil War saga in his spare time.
But that New York Times review from the time of the novel’s publishing also reveals the trap of nostalgia, of longing for a simpler time when it seemed like what you needed to know about a subject could be contained in a single volume.
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