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<br> The sheer ubiquity of the 'Battle Hymn' makes it almost common cultural coin in America. This marvelous, textured book brilliantly illuminates the origins and ever-evolving history of how an old Methodist camp melody became the most famous marching song and then the warlike anthem sung all across the political spectrum and at all manner of public events. Through the story of a song, surprised readers will learn a great deal about what binds as well as divides Americans. --David W. Blight, Yale University, and author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era<br><p><br>

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John Stauffer is professor of English and American Literature and African-American Studies chair of the History of American Civilization program at Harvard. His books include Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln and The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. Benjamin Soskis is a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy, and Policy at George Mason University. He has taught at George Washington University and the University of California, Washington Center. His writing has appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, and Slate.com.

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