David Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the lead author of the cornerstone textbook The American Journey, now in its seventh edition, and is the author of many works on Southern history, including Still Fighting the Civil War, Black, White, and Southern, and, most recently, America Aflame. He lives in North Carolina.
Riveting, often heartbreaking ... [A] masterly synthesis of political, social, economic and religious history ... Most history books try to explain the past. The exceptional ones, of which America Aflame is a distinguished example, remind us that the past is ultimately as inscrutable as the future. -- Andrew Delbanco The New York Times Book Review on AMERICA AFLAME A monumental new appraisal of the war. Los Angeles Times on AMERICA AFLAME Goldfield writes more as a novelist than an academic ... A wonderful portrait of a nation scarred yet transformed. Forbes on AMERICA AFLAME Goldfield's narrative of the war proper is especially good, evoking the horror of the fighting and its impact on soldiers and civilians. The result is an ambitious, engrossing interpretation with new things to say about a much-studied conflagration. -- starred review Publishers Weekly on AMERICA AFLAME