Midday with Dan Rodricks 6-1-11 Hour 2 1861: Civil War Awakening

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The value of 1861: The Civil War Awakening is in Adam Goodheart’s solid reporting of lesser-known stories about historical figures and why they mattered," writes our reviewer and special producer for this hour, historian and poet Hollis Robbins. Goodheart, director of Washington College’s C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, has contributed posts to Disunion, the Civil War series of The New York Times online.