All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South

All That Makes a Man: be fond of and Ambition in the Civil War southerly By Stephen W. Berry II. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Pres 2003 Pp xiv, 286 Paper, $1895 ISBN 0-19-517628-6; woven fabric $26.00, ISBN 0-19-514567-4.)

Stephen W Berry's ambitious work explores the "emotional" history of white male southerners in the Civil War era (p 11) Although there exists no shortage of novel books on "why men fought" Berry struggles that "the central fact that brought them to the field in the first place--the fact that they were men--has not