A review by thewakeless
The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South by Bruce Levine

2.0

 So the subtitle of this book is "the civil war and the social revolution that transformed the south". Please note the words social revolution. This book started great, it had good infromation, I enjoyed the writing style and I liked the comparisons he drew between the South and Edgar Allen Poe's the fall of the house of Usher, it was a fitting and pretty metaphore. However this book failed to live up to it's title. The majority of it was a war history. Battles here, political movements there, it concenrned itself with the big players, with Generals and state officials. That's not what I wanted. I wanted a history of people, that's what I'm interested in and I feel somewhat decieved by the title. That broguht it down considerably and I wouldn't have read it if I had known what it was. But I will praise his writing style for being both very informative and highly readable.