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Book Review: The Enduring Lost Cause
The Enduring Lost Cause: Afterlives of a Redeemer Nation
Edited by Edward R. Crowther
University of Tennessee Press, 2020, $70 hardcover
Reviewed by Stephen Davis
Just like The Dude in the Coen Brothers film, the Lost Cause abides. Edward Crowther reminds us of this with his collection of a dozen thoughtful essays.
Edward Pollard, the vitriolic associate editor of the wartime Richmond Examiner, coined the term in his history of the war, published in 1866. The Lost Cause Myth, developed by Southerners in the decades after Appomattox, explained Confederate defeat in a less searing way, sidelined slavery, and lionized the soldiers who fought for Southern independence. Historians may fuss over falsehoods in the LCM, but its cluster of ideas, symbols and rituals continues to tug at the emotions of countless Americans, Southerners especially. Or, to paraphrase from another great movie, “This is the South, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
That the Myth retains an allure for scholars as well is suggested in the titl
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Adult Swim
Adult-oriented programming block on Cartoon Network
Television channel
Adult Swim (stylized as [adult swim] and [as]) is an American adult-oriented television programming block on Cartoon Network that is broadcast during the evening, prime time, and late-nightdayparts. The block features stylistically varied animated and live-action series targeting an adult audience. The block's content includes original programming, which are particularly comedies and action series, syndicated series, and short films with generally minimal or no editing for content. Adult Swim is programmed by Williams Street, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Television Studios that also produces much of the block's original programming.
Launched on September 2, 2001, Adult Swim has frequently aired animated sitcoms, adult animation features, parody, satire, mockumentaries, sketch comedy, and pilots, with many of its programs being aesthetically experimental, transgressive, improvised, and surrealist in nature. Adult Swim has contracted with various studios known for their productions in absu
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