In the canon
Patriotic Gore
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1962
- Pages
- Pages 830
Two sea slugs meet on the ocean floor and the larger swallows the smaller. That is Edmund Wilson's opening figure for the American Civil War, and for every war since: nations feed, and the sermons and the flags arrive afterwards, dressed to make appetite look like conscience.
remove the whole subject from the plane of morality.
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